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!

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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).

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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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Here’s a fresh update for Blaze. This release should keep you on your toes; progress has been pretty good recently, and there’s another weekend up ahead to really get cracking on this…

Changes:

• Modules now have their own routes file, letting you build urls like: blog/2007/06/first-post/ without changing the main routes.php file
• New ‘Blog’ module now standard - backend will be in next release
• New System library and system preferences in admin backend
  • Switch caching on/off in backend
  • Site title is set in backend
• Basic User library built… backend is now locked with authentication

Install instructions.

1. Unzip the file.
2. Place it in your web directory.
3. Make sure that your RewriteBase is correct in /.htaccess …. if you are in a subfolder like site.com/blaze/ - your rewritebase should be /blaze/
4. Run the schema.sql on a clean database… set up your config/config.php and config/database.php accordingly.

Note: Default admin username is ‘admin’ with password ‘blaze’…
Future releases will be taking care of proper salted hashes for passwords, but that’ll come with the installer.

So, I’m thinking that by the end of March, we could have a pretty sweet CodeIgniter CMS here!

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This basic upgrade should give you a better idea of where this CMS is going, and what to expect from it when we finally hit a 1.0 version.

What’s new?

• Multilingual Modules and System
• Basic Pages Administration
• Drag and Drop Navigation Administration Experiment

So, grab the update and have a go… let me know what you think of the progress so far.

Warning: This CMS really is a basic start right now, and won’t be in much of a better shape for a couple of weeks.

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