Blaze

Here’s a new version of Blaze for you guys to get digging into.
The main upgrades with this version are the basic blog administration section.

There will be a 0.92 release in the next week which completes the Blog administration section, so there’s not such a big fuss over this release.
But the important thing is: The project is making progress!

I’m currently in the process of documenting Blaze in-time for the 1.0 release too, so for now just go with the flow and hold on ’till I can get this documentation finished.

There should also be a roadmap, task list, feature request and bug reporting next week too!

Download the latest version here

Elliot

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OK guys, there were a few of you having login problems…
Well, I’ve fixed them now. Just download the latest release, and make sure you clear out your database and execute the new SQL.

The new code creates your first user on first login, and the encryption is now handled by CI’s encryption class to make sure that it works across different platforms and environments.

There’s also now a critical fix to the simplepie library, which was previously breaking the admin dashboard on some versions of PHP.

Please download the very latest release and comment with any bug reports or praise

Elliot

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Hey guys, I’m glad to let you know that Blaze 0.90 is now online and available for download.
There’s been some notable improvements, most of them in the core template rendering methods.

New features/functionality:

• Themes are fully contained directories with their templates and static content (images, css, javascript)
• Themes can now use ‘blocks’… just put in {area.1} as an example, to render a block (block 1) in that area
• Caching functions revised - turning cache off now deletes all cached pages
• New admin layout
• New frontend layout
• Migrated whole database over to UTF-8 (should solve some login problems)
• Added Akismet library for future blog comment spam checks
• New breadcrumb navigation… modules can add items to the breadcrumb

The next release will have this very flexible ‘core’ to work with, and I’ll be building a cracking Blog module, and improving administration for: Pages, Navigation, and users.

To make installation as simple as possible:

1. Create your database and execute schema.sql
2. Edit application/config/database.php - and put your database settings in here
3. Set the following directories to writable (chmod -R 777): application/cache, application/logs
4. Check your ‘RewriteBase’ is correct in .htaccess (By default set to run at the root of a domain, like booya.com… if you’re running blaze in a subdirectory, set the RewriteBase appropriately… i.e. /blazetest/ for: server.com/blazetest/)

The default admin username is: ‘admin’ and the password is: ‘test’ (both without quotes).

Download Blaze Now!

Important Note
Blaze will be relicensed before version 1.0. The purpose of this is to make Blaze more free and open.
I’ve read a lot of comments about the licensing issue, so standby for further news.

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Hey guys… After a good amount of progress this week, I’ve been hit by the flu this weekend
However! Blaze 0.90 will be out this coming weekend!

I’ve already built one of the key improvements: ‘Blocks’ (partials) rendering, allowing different content from other modules to be displayed in a template.
Once I’ve built some ‘useful’ blocks for the basic modules, I’ll be ready to roll out another release this weekend.
So hang on to your trousers, and write it in your diaries!

Elliot

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