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Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
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Vanilla is a powerfully simple discussion forum you can easily customize to make as unique as your community.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla
- Owner: vanilla
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2009-06-21T01:41:25.000Z (over 15 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-15T16:58:37.000Z (28 days ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-27T15:08:56.255Z (16 days ago)
- Topics: community, community-forums, discussion-board, forums, vanilla-forums
- Language: PHP
- Homepage: https://open.vanillaforums.com
- Size: 163 MB
- Stars: 2,889
- Watchers: 119
- Forks: 775
- Open Issues: 9
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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README
[](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/LICENSE)
[](https://circleci.com/gh/vanilla/vanilla/tree/master)
## Howdy, Stranger!
Vanilla was born out of the desire to create flexible, customizable, and downright entertaining
community solutions. Vanilla has been used to power tens of thousands of community forums around the world
and we couldn't be happier if you've decided to use Vanilla to grow yours.
| Forum | Rich Editor | Dashboard |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|  |  |  |
Every community is unique. Vanilla is a finely-crafted platform on which designers and developers
can build a custom-tailored environment that meets your community's particular needs.
## 5 reasons Vanilla is the sweetest forum
1. We've reimagined traditional forums for mass-appeal.
1. Our theming flexibility is second-to-none.
1. Impossibly good integration options with single sign-ons and embedding.
1. The best tools available for community management.
1. Curated features with great plugin options, not the kitchen sink.
## Installation
The current version of Vanilla requires PHP 7.2+ and MySQL 5.7+. The following PHP extensions are also required: cURL, DOM, Fileinfo, GD, intl, JSON, libxml, PDO
- [Local Installation](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker)
- [Our Cloud Hosting Solution](https://vanillaforums.com/en/plans/)
- [The Basics of Self Hosting ](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/installation/self-hosting/)
_Upgrading from an earlier version of Vanilla? See [our upgrade notes](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/installation/self-hosting/#upgrading)._
## Changes to Fulltext Indexing
Full-text index support has been disabled by default as of Vanilla 4. To enable full-text index support, add a `FullTextIndexing` key under the `Database` section of your site config and set its value to `true`. **Failure to add this config value will result in full-text indexes being removed from Vanilla's database tables.**
## Contributing
- Local Development - [Environment](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker), [Configuration & Debugging](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/tools/environment/) & [Build Tools](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/tools/building-frontend/).
- [Running Unit tests](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/tests/README.md).
- Coding Standard - [PHP](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/contributing/coding-standard-php/), [Typescript](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/contributing/coding-standard-typescript/), [Database Naming](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/contributing/database-naming-standards/)
- [Writing Pull Requests](https://docs.vanillaforums.com/developer/contributing/pull-requests/)
- [Contributing Guidelines](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [Contributing to Translations](https://github.com/vanilla/locales/blob/master/README.md)
## Getting Help
- [Troubleshooting upgrades & installs](http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/)
- [Official documentation](http://docs.vanillaforums.com)
- [Vanilla community forums](https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussions)
- [Official cloud hosting with professional support & migration services](https://vanillaforums.com/plans)
- [File a detailed bug report](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/new?template=bug_report.md)
- [Plan out a new feature](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues/new?template=new_feature.md)
## Reporting Security Issues
Please disclose security issues responsibly by emailing [email protected] with a full description or join our [bug bounty program](https://hackerone.com/vanilla). We cannot award bounties outside that program.
We'll work on releasing an updated version as quickly as possible.
Please do not email non-security issues; use the [issue tracker](https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/issues) instead.
## Building Releases
Vanilla releases are built using [Phing](https://www.phing.info/) to create a pre-built deploy-ready copies of Vanilla. To build these run the following in the root of the repository.
```
./bin/release
```
The following dependenies are all required for building a release.
- `node`
- `yarn`
- `php`
- `composer`
## License & Legal Stuff
Vanilla is free, open source software distributed under the license `gpl-2.0-only`.
We accept and encourage contributions from our community and sometimes give hugs in return.
Copyright © 2009-2022 Vanilla Forums Inc.
> Vanilla Forums is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>
> Vanilla Forums is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
> without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>
> See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> along with Vanilla Forums.
>
> If not, see .
> Contact Vanilla Forums Inc. at support [at] vanillaforums [dot] com
## Bonk!
Just kidding, everything's awesome. 