I have been passively following the development of Garden for a while now. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a PHP framework that makes it easy to get started and includes all of the user management stuff that most web applications need.

This seems like a great fit for me because I despise spending ages (which is what it always seems to take) to get the user stuff working on other PHP frameworks. Makes me crazy and I dislike it enough that it’s actually kept me from starting some projects. (I’ll admit this probably says more about me than the frameworks.)

So that’s the good news about Garden. Unfortunately, there’s also bad news (for me), and that’s the fact that Garden is still very much in development and the documentation is utter crap. Well, I should be more specific: what’s there is well-written. There are just huge gaping holes in what’s there.

I also am not clear on how to contribute to the documentation (which I would gladly do), so for the moment, I’ve settled on this blog for gathering what I’ve learned.

It’s worth noting that because Garden is evolving so rapidly, it’s likely that the problems I’m running into will be fixed, rendering this category of posts outdated. So be it. Until that point, hopefully it will save someone else a little trouble.