Blaze

Hello again!
After looking at the ideas in the Roadmap post, I’ve decided, that there is a need to have other contributors in the project. So, I’m looking for people who fit into these categories:

• Slick Designers - someone who can build a kick-ass, clean, intuitive, web-2.0 backend design… and a nice front-end design to go with it.
• Translators - the whole of the blaze system is going to be multi-lingual. I’ve already started porting the views over to the new multi-lingual system. I need people who can translate the language files into other languages.
• CodeIgniter Gurus - people who love CI, and have solid, efficient, and kick-ass programming techniques.

If you think you’re good at what you do, and you want to use your skills to build Blaze… Let me know.
Post a comment with what you do, and some examples of your work (translators don’t bother… you don’t need to prove you can speak your native language!).

Post them in the comments so the rest of the community can get excited about some of the talent that may be joining this project.

I’m moving the SVN over to my new dedicated server, which will let me give public svn access… as well as a ‘bleeding edge’ demo.

Edit: Demo now available! - See link in sidebar >>>

Elliot

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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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Blaze is one of the first CodeIgniter Content Management Systems…
And it’s got a bright future ahead!

I’ve decided to post here the ‘direction’ of Blaze, and where I’m hoping to take this project.

• Firstly, Blaze will always be ‘dynamic’ and flexible, allowing developers to customize and modify everything about it.
• There will always be 3rd party modules for people to download and add extra functionality to their install.
• Blaze templates will allow developers to assign different content to different blocks, from any module.
  For example:
  On the home page you may want the latest news stories, latest store products and a welcome text…

  This will be possible by assign different template areas to diffent controller methods.

• Blaze will always be free for personal use, and fairly licensed.

In the next few releases I’ll be pushing to build:

• Simple installer - helping you to get things up and running easily.
• New template system
• Account module for front-end (login system)

I hope this gives you some confidence in Blaze and its future.

Elliot

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Hey guys, I forgot that the .htaccess file isn’t included in the zip…
So here’s a copy of it:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
	RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
 
	# Add Trailing Slash (Force it!) - It looks cool :)
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
	RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
	RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://cms.dev/$1/ [R=301,L]
 
	# Admin 'dashboard'
	RewriteRule ^admin$ index.php/admin [L]
	RewriteRule ^admin/$ index.php/admin/ [L]
 
	# Admin functions within Admin module and controller
	RewriteRule ^admin/(navigation|users|settings|login|logout)$ index.php/admin/$1 [L]
	RewriteRule ^admin/(navigation|users|settings|login|logout)/(.*)$ index.php/admin/$1/$2 [L]
	RewriteRule ^admin/nav_(.*)$ index.php/admin/nav_$1 [L]
 
	# All others, push to the module in question
	RewriteRule ^admin/([a-zA-Z]*)$ $1/admin [L]
	RewriteRule ^admin/([a-zA-Z]*)/(.*)$ $1/admin/$2 [L]
 
	# Any request were the file or directory doesn't exist...
	# Push to CI
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

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