BackendPro Alpha Information
Yes its nearly ready, not long now. BackendPro alpha release should be available for download as soon as I finish off a few last bits. Its been quite a while but I have only been able to work on it about once a week for the past few months, so progress has been slow. It has also undergone many redesigns, trying to make the interface simpler but still very usable. I think I have the final version now, its not my own but it was so good I had to use parts of the original. Many thanks to Steve Smith for the ideas and his Tiger Wordpress theme.
What is BackendPro?
BackendPro is a control panel for developers. This means it includes a load of useful things which a developer would fine useful. Its not a CMS, its not built so all the work is done for you but so it can be used to speed up development. It has many features which I feel are lacking from other authentication libraries.
Features
- User Authentication using ACL
- Site preferences (allows you to create your own site preferences and use the built in form creation to update them, instead of using config files)
- Simple breadcrumb creation
- Asset library (set default assets, load assets on the fly, server asset caching)
- PHP to javascript variable conversion
- Default styles for forms and other useful HTML elements
- Status messages (create success/info/warning/error messages to display to the user in a pretty form)
- ReCAPTCHA
- Language detection
Over the next weeks ill try to polish off the rest of the control panel and get some documentation written up for it. There’s no point releasing it and no-one knowing how on earth it works. I suppose you could look at it. So that’s it for now, but check back for news on the alpha, ill try and get it out soon.
Sound great.
Hope to see you`re release soon. Screenshots look nice.
Are you using some template library or default CI view lib?
What about license?
P.S
Will be glad to help test it when its out.
No template library, just basic views. Licence at the moment is LGPL. At the moment I’m going over all the code just checking it works how I want it to. Then I have the great task of documentation. I’m not going to fix myself to a date, but I hope it will be soon. All the code is made as said, just have to polish it off.
hey it sounds really great.
I whould like to make a sugestion to this backendPro, that is a feature to manage modules, so you can develop modules to you app and they can easly be integrated on the admin pannel as well as a feature to install and remove modules (kind of joomla module installation, probably the only thing i like on joomla).
I don’t know if you’re using any Modular Separation like matchbox, or some thing similar but i think it can be very helpfull for organization propuses.
One last question do you have any date on mind for an alpha release of some kind? (when can we look at the code?)
Right yes it does you matchbox, but at current it doesn’t allow simple drop in modules, but I did think about this as a feature. Its possible, that’s all Ill say.
The code is all finished really, I’m writing some documentation up which with a large work load at the moment its taking longer than I thought. Reason Its taking a while is I don’t want to release with any known problems (still a few to fix) and with no documentation.
So keep watching this space
Hey Adam,
If you want i can help you out with the documentation, as well as help you translate the application to Portuguese, that way you can release it, to a wide range of audience.
If you want me to translate this, and don’t want to release the application now, i can start just translating the documentation you have so far. Then when you release the application i translate the language files.
Drop me an email if you’re interested.
Cheers
Miguel
Just to let people know if your watching this comment board, the alpha has been released. Please check out the front page of my blog for details.