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Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

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Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

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post #8

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

That's what I like about Symfony. It's all in my hands to configure.

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#12
post #9
post #8

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

and when you need to rename a single route you do what, rename the whole controller and/or method?

exactly, that's the downside to it.

it's really nice to have /controller/method/param/param routing out of the box, so the speed of 0 to MVP is quick, but on the other side, renaming a route sucks. unless you have a list of overrides in which case, may as well just use hand written routes from the get go

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#13
post #8

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

I disagree. That's too magic for my liking. I like Laravel's routing solution where you have to manually map a route to a controller action. You can set route groups and restrict middleware to specific routes and stuff so pretty powerful!

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#14
post #9
post #8

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

and when you need to rename a single route you do what, rename the whole controller and/or method?

I guess you can use a micro framework, I Use silex. They're much less opionated. It's built with a synfony components so it's very similar (I think it's the same people).

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#15

It seems like a cross between a GIS data system and farm inventory manager. Plus it has data layers for time based crops, water systems, etc.

Would be nice if they expounded on that; I'm not really sure what either of those things are (or rather, I have a hard time envisioning how they would improve the life of a farmer), and I grew up on a farm.

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#16
post #4

What product is this competing against if any? I am guessing someone in the farming field may know more about what to do with the program but for the layman an explanation or some instructions as to how you use it would be awesome.

I'm a Drupal dev and I stumbled upon farmOS[0] awhile ago, it's pretty crazy what all this stuff can do. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised about the amount of data that's useful to a farmer.

[0] http://farmos.org/

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#17
post #2

The documentation is pretty sparse, and no links to a product page. What does this actually do ?

The author of the software here. Basically, you can record when you start seedling the crops, when to harvest, record all your seeds inventory, and write to do lists.

This release has pretty basic functions, but it works for a small farm like mine. I'm still improving the features.

So sorry about the documentation. I need time to develop the website to accommodate the doc and the user guide.

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#18
post #2

The documentation is pretty sparse, and no links to a product page. What does this actually do ?

The author of the software here. Basically, you can record when you start seedling the crops, when to harvest, record all your seeds inventory, and write to do lists. This release has pretty basic functions, but it works for a small farm like mine. I'm still improving the features. So sorry about the documentation. I need time to develop the website to accommodate the doc and the user guide.

> So sorry about the documentation.

Don't apologize for giving things away for free! Consider the GP's comment helpful feedback, not criticism. :-)

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author of the software here. Basically, you can record when you start seedling the crops, when to harvest, record all your seeds inventory, and write to do lists. This release has pretty basic functions, but it works for a small farm like mine. I'm still improving the features. So sorry about the documentation. I need time to develop the website to accommodate the doc and the user guide.

> So sorry about the documentation. Don't apologize for giving things away for free! Consider the GP's comment helpful feedback, not criticism. :-)

That's actually a valuable feedback.

Re: Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

#20
post #8

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

That's what I like about Symfony. It's all in my hands to configure.

I don't understand that philosophy. Isn't the ideal that the default is something sensible and you only change it if you want different behavior?
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