So, I work every day with PHP and have much knowledge about PHP5 and building web applications. Primarily I work at backend, design is not my strong point. Additional I work with TYPO3 for business and know how to build web services on top of TYPO3. But I didnāt think that TYPO3 were the right way here.
So, if you need some PHP, mail me ā [email protected] or write me a message here
Iāll be starting the development today! For now, the name SpongeDev has received a lot of good feedback, and we will keep it for now.
As said previously, I will make it open-source, and based off Laravel 5, one of the fastest growing PHP framework. The front-end will mostly likely be based off Bootstrap, but I am open to suggestions (as said above, I am not a front-end designed).
It will be using Sass or Less (open for suggestions) for styling, Gulp for tasks, and Markdown for most formatting, as users that will be using it to post plugins will be developers, and most likely know how Markdown works. It will be hosting on Github under CraftThatBlock/SpongeDev.
Iām rather optimistic that things can be improved if started over. Also lets him use the MIT license I suppose, like the rest of Sponge. Itās not like weāre in a hurry as itāll likely take a bit longer for the Sponge API to be usable anyways.
For those that asked me elsewhere, I rebooted the site I was working on, and you can find it here.
You can ignore the terrible designā¦but itās basically fully integrated with forums (Started this before sponge had forums, or anything really), downloads, revisions, and a full on plugin implementation, with downloads, wiki pages (Not finished IIRC), various stat tracking and other cool things that I was working on. If anyone is interested in hosting something like this shoot me a PM.
Well, I am a very experienced back-end developer and have experience with bootstrap too. I could help bring this up, and hopefully be part of the team.
Other than that, I liked SpongeDev. I just love the way itās said. We really need this if Sponge is gonna come out sooner or later. We should have something ready to welcome the very first and new Sponge plugins!
I like how there is a specific place for a plugin to have a wiki. Also if your site getās used for sponge (I bet it will) It should have some link up with the forums for logins and stuff.
Thatās essentially how it would work. SSO means Single sign-on, which basically allows you to register through the primary (Forums in this case), and use that session on other websites that use the forumās SSO. That canāt be done without an admin API key from Discourse unfortunately.