A Day in the Life of a Developer
10 Feb
I know a lot of you have been watching the code space on Assebmly and on the CodeIgniter forums recently waiting and asking for news about BackendPro 1.0. Sadly this is not a ‘its done’ post but a post to update you all.
Over the last few months I have struggled to find much free time to do work on BackendPro, mainly due to finding a new job, moving home. So things are just starting to settle down so I am hoping some time to free up. Sorry for the very long wait, I am still trying to get the project done its just taking a tad longer than hoped.
18 May
It has been quite a while since I last updated you on the status of BackendPro. Some of you may have been following the SVN and will know things are moving forward. A few people are now using the new code and reporting bugs which I am very grateful for.
Currently I am trying to put together the user guide for the code. The old guide was focused mostly around the classes available and what methods were available. The new guide will have all of this but will also contain detailed instuctions and examples of how to actualy use BackendPro to create a site. For example:
For the mean time I have also checked in the first copy of the new Installer. I have designed the new installer to provide a more ‘complete’ process. It hopefully will guide you through the process and help you a lot more than the old one.
14 Apr
Currently BackendPro 0.6.1 dosn’t support PHP5 officaly but there is some things you can do to patch it so it will work. When trying to run BackendPro on PHP5 you will most likely be hit by the following errors.
Assigning by Reference in Loader.php line 414
Message: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated
Filename: libraries/Loader.php
Line Number: 414
This can be fixed by opening application/libraries/Loader.php and going to line 414. Replace the line
$CI->dbutil =& new $class();
with the following
$CI->dbutil = new $class();
Function ereg_replace has been deprecated in libraries/Preference_form.php
Find line 100 and the code:
$this->field[$field]['label'] = ucwords(ereg_replace(‘_’,’ ‘,$field));
Replace the line with the following
$this->field[$field]['label'] = ucwords(preg_replace(‘/_/’,’ ‘,$field));
Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in access_control/resources.php line 42
Find line 43 and the code:
$offset = $this->access_control_model->buildPrettyOffset(&$obj,$tree);
Replace the line with the following:
$offset = $this->access_control_model->buildPrettyOffset($obj,$tree);
12 Aug
A new version of BackendPro has now been released. Its main aim was to solve an issue where BackendPro couldn’t be installed on certain web servers. It also includes a few other bug fixes and enhancements.
Libraries
Models
Bugs
7 Aug
It has been pointed out to me that there is an issue with BackendPro 0.6 on some web servers. The issue is with some new files in the site module. The problems comes because of the CamelCase used in the filenames of the site libraries.
If you get the follow error when visiting a BackendPro page:
Unable to load the requested class: bep_site
I am working on a new release which I will try to get out shortly, but for the mean time please do the following:
Change include_once(‘Bep_AssetFile.php’);
To include_once(‘Bep_assetfile.php’);
Change $this->CI->load->library(‘Bep_Browser’);
To $this->CI->load->library(‘bep_browser’);
I want to thank Christian Schneider for pointing this out and for the fix.
3 Aug
It has taken me a while but now there is a version of BackendPro online for you to try. You have full admin control over the install and can add and do what ever you want.
The Demo is reset at 3am everyday (GMT), this clears all changes made.
To access the demo please click here, you will need the following details to login:
As always please do let me know if you find any issues with either the Demo or BackendPro.
17 Jul
BackendPro 0.6 has been released at last. Not too many little updates in it but the major thing is the new Asset library. Replacing the old Page library, it now has improved and more intelligent caching, along with the ability to have asset dependencies.
A full list of the changes can be found in the user guide here. Please download it and give it a try, any issues can you either send me an email or post about it on the CodeIgniter forums (posting a comment here will also get my attention).
23 May
A new release of BackendPro has been released due to a major bug being fixed. Please head over to the project page and get the changes asap.
12 May
Due to an increase in spam on my bug tracker for the BackendPro project, I have had to turn off creating tickets without a user account.
So if you have a bug you want to tell me about, please with do so by creating an account with assembla and posting it, or make a post on the BackendPro CI thread.
21 Mar
After a long cold winter BackendPro 0.5 is here. This release is mainly about bug fixes and a few new little features. So if you havn’t tried BackendPro yet, give it a whirl. If you are currently using it, upgrade if possible to get the new features and bug fixes. A list of the things changed and added is below: