Re: PHP Forrest

2008-07-29 Thread Ross Gardler
Christian Grobmeier wrote: There has, in the past, been some interest in a "lightweight" forrest. However, I suspect for you to gather interest here it would have to reuse much of what is going on in the Forrest world, i.e. be able to use existing plugins (or at least substantial

Re: PHP Forrest

2008-07-29 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi, > Some of the issues you raise were what prompted me to experiment with > Forrest 2. I created a simple prototype of Forrest 2 a long time ago, > however, I've since moved onto other things (Apache Sling provides much of > what I, personally, need). This was intended to simplify the use of Fo

Re: PHP Forrest

2008-07-24 Thread Ross Gardler
Christian Grobmeier wrote: This brought me to the conclusion that I need a lightweight Forrest. Means: less features but easier and an easy installation. I have stolen the great ideas of cocoon and forrest and wrote something similar in PHP. I call it PIWI and you can check it out here: http:

Re: PHP Forrest

2008-07-23 Thread Chr. Grobmeier
> > >> 1) its complex and one cannot start immediatly if you want a bit more than >> just writing content. Even implementing your own design can bring you some >> pain in the ass. >> 2) its java and i can only use it for projects which have an own server >> running, the rights to install it and so

Re: PHP Forrest

2008-07-23 Thread Brian M Dube
Christian Grobmeier wrote: However at the end I think Forrest has very good ideas and concepts but two drawbacks: 1) its complex and one cannot start immediatly if you want a bit more than just writing content. Even implementing your own design can bring you some pain in the ass. 2) its java and

PHP Forrest

2008-07-23 Thread Christian Grobmeier
form-handling, but we plan to implement this beginning in september. A cache would also be nice. Currently we develop at Google Code but I was curious about if the Forrest project or some developers here are interested in this implementation. I know there are not to much php folks at apache, but mayb