Reading around the www for any existing medium-scale CodeIgniter based CMS and I came across one.
It was by Elliot Haughin and the topic was found here on his public blog. I was impressed by his willingness to get something out there for us avid CodeIgniter developers to use!
He called his project CodeIgnition at launch, and eventually became Blaze. However it seems he has taken it down. It started as a simple proof-of-concept project and by the first release candidate/beta, he stated on his blog it wasn’t exactly the way he felt it should be. Also CodeIgniter will most likely be bringing out a new version post-launch of EE 2.0 .
Well, I’ve decided to take the inspiration he had seem to have at the beginning of the project and create my own version of a CodeIgniter CMS dubbed “Combustion”.
It will be designed with the ideal in mind that fellow developers will use it for commissions, therefore easily change out the copyright tags to read the designer of the site. I won’t require anyone to keep my name or site on the visible copyright, just in the source. Something I’ve been looking for, for quite some time now is an easily implemented CMS that does the basics and can be expanded by a series of self-writ modules (or from a library of modules/controllers/libs from CI Wiki, lol).
I’ll keep everyone in the loop who is interested.
If anyone out there wants to start a collaborative project on this, get in contact with me! I’ll even take a back seat position if a project is already started.
Kinda reminds me of myself haha. I’m checking out his progress on some blogs and I believe that is exactly the kind of work that will never get to be completed. I might as well make my own coz I can’t really wait for him to finish already.
Well, I’m already in the start legs of the Combustion project. Even have the domain.
http://combustioncms.com
Which is currently locked for anyone other than my IP addy to view, but progress is progress.
Also; ExpressionEngine, another EllisLabs product has released their “core” for free… which is a very light weight version of their commercial CMS… I might utilize their admin panel, or at least attempt to replicate it cosmetically… I’d have to check the license on it before doing that.
Anyways, what I’m getting to is the project is quite open; and I’m prepared to take a back seat to whom ever wants to take it full on; I just ask to stay on the project because I’ve wanted to create this for awhile now.
I would be interested in collaborating on this. I have been wanting to jump into CI for a while, and am getting weary of dealing with Drupal. Have built a CMS before in Coldfusion, just need to get acclimated to the CI world.
That would be quite awesome!
Plus they recently just released another version, lol. Let me know when you’re ready to jump aboard and what you think you’ll need from me, other than dev access to the combustion cms site.
I would love to be part of this project. I am more of a .NET developer, but have worked a bit with CI. Is there a project plan or something that can be used to determine what needs to be worked on and what has higher priority?
I’m using Collabtive on the site’s back-end right now to keep track of what’s going on. It’s not the most robust script in the world, but it’s an easy to use interface that seems to answer all the questions for you… in contrast with like scripts.
Inside the Collabtive script, the developers can keep track of milestones and tasks, and also assign them to the proper developers.
I use GoogleTalk for anyone that would like to get in direct contact with me. ‘admin@steinerd.com’