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.

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:

• How to  create your own frontend/backend pages.
• Extending the registration screen to include custom profile fields
• Added a new custom field type to the preference page
• etc etc

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.

I want to say a thank you to Phil Sturgeon whos PryoCMS install mine has been based off.

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);

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

Upon loading it in FF all was good, but loading it in IE showes the gradient image was not only darker than that in FF but it didn’t blend with the underlying base color.

I strached my head for quite a while and in the end learnt the following.

IE .png palette has a bug in which it cann’t display the gAMA chunk of the image. This causes them to be rendered incorrectly.

Now there are two possible fixes for this.

1. Don’t use a png, use a gif
2. Use this tool to remove the gAMA chunk from the image, http://psydk.org/PngOptimizer.php

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

Libraries

• Moved the Admin_Controller and Public_Controller to their own seperate files. This keeps it so there is 1 class per file. See Enhancement #99.

Models

• Stopped the preference model from making multiple queries to the DB whenever a preference was fetched. Now they are all fetched and cached. See Enhancement #135.

Bugs

• Fixed a bug saying Bep_assets could not find an asset file when attempting to create an asset cache. See Bug #134.
• Fixed bugs in the install process where files where not being checked if they where really writeable. See Bug #133.
• Fixed a bug where it would report Cannot load library: bep_site. See Bug #132.

The new version can be downloaded here.

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:

1. Change all filenames in modules/site/libraries to
   Bep_assetfile.php
   Bep_assets.php
   Bep_browser.php
   Bep_site.php
2. In the file modules/site/libraries/Bep_assets.php change the following lines:

   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.

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:

• Email         = admin@bepdemo.co.uk
• Password = password

As always please do let me know if you find any issues with either the Demo or BackendPro.

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).