Blaze 0.90 Released
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:
- Create your database and execute schema.sql
- Edit application/config/database.php - and put your database settings in here
- Set the following directories to writable (chmod -R 777): application/cache, application/logs
- 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).
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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I cannot login with “admin/test”
No feedback about what’s wrong is given….
The new blaze looks great!
It’s a shame I can’t enter the admin panel. I can succesfully login with admin/test but it looks like it enters in a unending refresh loop. Probably a wrong .htaccess setting somewhere. Could you help?
The site is: http://www.appleportal.nl
Thanks!
I’ve downloaded Blaze 0.90 and have copied the files to the root of my server where a subdomain points to (http://blaze.mydomain.com).
I’ve modified the .htaccess-file in line 13 to match my domain - any other line is untouched.
When I type http://blaze.mydomain.com, the frontpage is shown and anything seems to work. But every link e.g. http://blaze.mydomain.com/about/ results in an error “no input file specified”.
Any ideas?
Is this the right place to post questions, or should I retry in the CI-Forum?
Thanks!
Nice Elliot!
Are you going to emplement something that custom designs (for the frontend) are easy to use? Textpattern style?
Same problem here.
1. It is a bad idea to encode password using username as a key, if i change my nick i will not be able to login.
2. There is no static/frontend folder in the archive only static/uploads
3. I could not login as admin
There is still some login problem… :\
OK guys… here’s some answers!
“1. It is a bad idea to encode password using username as a key, if i change my nick i will not be able to login.”
You’re exactly right… that function has been changed now, and it uses CI’s sha1 function, to make sure it’s always the same across platforms.
“2. There is no static/frontend folder in the archive only static/uploads”;
Each theme has a static folder in application/views/themes/themename/static/
Call static files via: blazeinstall.com/static/frontend/themename/resource.
There is a RewriteRule set up for dealing with this:
This makes us able to package themes in one directory for easier install.
“3. I could not login as admin”
I’ve now changed the way this works… the default schema has no users, on first login, that user will be created. Simple
I have downloaded the latest version plus imported the new schema, but I still can’t login into the admin.
Please help.
Hey… I’ve emailed you.
We’ll do some troubleshooting and might even fix a bug or two in the process!
I can’t login still. The user admin is in the users table, but with admin/test I still can’t login.
I just wanted to thank you Eliot for your wonderful support.
Hi, this is great!!
Love that the default theme is compliant!!
I’ve just been playing round a bit; seems to be a problem thought when you add a new page; the table ‘navigation’ isn’t being updated although ‘module_pages’ is?
Keep up the good work.
Ben
I think what you’re working on is great, but I don’t feel this site gives enough information for me to even try it out! Yeah I know “Whaddaya want Man! It’s free!” But still, you really could foster a pretty large niche community if you put up a demo site and a gallery of screenshots.
I can tell you there are thousands more just like me that won’t even give it a second look without a demo. I am giving you this advice from my years as a site conversion specialist and I really truly love to see projects like these take off. It opens doors for the developer(s) and makes the internet a better place.
Anywho, good luck!
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regarding the current Blaze website… I agree, it is ‘Basic’…
Essentially, this was just a place for me to post the latest release news and host the file. However, when Blaze 1.0 is released, this site will be running Blaze, so this site itself will be an example of it.
As well as this, I will be uploading a demo, and writing better documentation.
But, again, this project is only a few weeks old, so give me a chance to get a stable, full-featured release out, and then when I’m happy with that, I’ll get some house-keeping done
hi elliot..can’t wait 4 the latest version…
but, i’m still stuck on the 0.91..
i’ve got the plain text without css…
can u help me solve this..