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);

Well as the Christmas period approaches I thought I would release some new screen grabs of the new BackendPro 1.0 UI. Its still in development but over the next few weeks I hope to be able to show more preview screengrabs of what’s to come.

Update: Just added another screenshot of the new preference screen. Its far cleaner than the old version and also quicker to navigate around.

First of all I want to apologise for my site being down for so long. 3 weeks ago I went on holiday but sadly had a bad accident so have been unable to do anything until now. But all is well now so things are back on track.

I know some of you contacted me personally about problems and alike and I will try to reply asap.

Some of you may have already noticed but over the last few months there hasn’t been a lot of work done on BackendPro due to  many changes in my life. Sadly with new challenges BackendPro isn’t a major concern of mine at this current point in time. I would love to put a lot of work into it and develop it further but I just don’t have the time. Another main reason is the client wanting it initialy has decided on different plans.

Hopefully after some other projects have been delivered I can find some time to do more work but until then I am afraird BackendPro 0.3.1 will be the last release untill then.  Heck the client may even want the project fired backup again and ill have the reason to work on it. So have fun with what I’v written so far and I hope I will be posting on here soon with good news of a new version.

Well April the 1st has passed, I both love the day and hate it. Me being quite gullible I tend to believe some of the subtle jokes. But on the other hand I do try to make a few myself. I feel it’s great that even in this day and age when companies are looked upon so much that they still find time to make the odd joke. I also feel that it shows a lot about a company and what its work ethos is depending on if it goes along with April 1st. So shame on all you who didn’t do anything.

So did anyone find any good ones this year? Here are a few of my favourites.

• BBC Flying Penguins (sadly its only available on iPlayer)
• Google & Virgin team up to form, Virgle for a trip to Mars
• YouTube redirect all featured videos on their front page to RickRolls music video
  

My personal one was to do with CodeIgniter. Since there is a lot of talk about CodeIgniter 2.0 at the moment, I thought I would see how many fellow CodeIgniter’s I could catch out. At first I had no idea what to do, I didn’t want to do anything too silly, CodeIgniter 2.0 cancelled was out of the question. In the end I went for CodeIgniter 2.0 to be charged for. I felt this was just in the realms of plausibility. Here is the thread of the main post and peoples replies.

Well I hope everyone had a good day yesterday, hope no one played any horrible pranks on you.