Dazzle Development Blog

First off i like to welcome you all to our new blog, so you get too see what been under development and how we have progressed,

as we start looking at getting more developers working beside us im sure they post some of there status updates too.

as up until now the project has been off / on for some time

but now has been under constant development for a few months now

all our old code that we start back when we first started the project was when php 5 was released and now its been slowly updated and written how php 5 code should be and now does require php 5.3 but this could change to atleast 5.2 as im thinking of implementing some wrappers for the 5.3  code

the project itself has been alot inflused by phpnuke, & nuke-evolution and the whole reason behind this is for a while i worked with phpnuke and even worked with the developer of phpnuke when phpnuke 7.7 was released

and so much i wanted to change about phpnuke but i had no control of major core changes which i really wanted todo with phpnuke for sometime

so what i did was to rewrite how phpnuke functions and make everythign better and easier to use

for example the biggest part of control of an CMS is design wanted to be able to design every aspect of the portal this means chaneg the looks and feel of the modules as well as the site

so smarty was used as our template engine so smarty is wrapped into our template engine but it goes behond templates almost every aspect is assigned into smarty from form elements , as for the form elements you can control the html type too as some elements only work under a particlar version of doctype for example xhtml / html 4.0.1 & the new html5

every major class this includes sessions, users, database, templates, filesystem etc are all plugin based you can extend any of the classes just by writing an new class and dropping it right into the plugin folder or into the modules class folder for example if its only used by the module you created

as soon we tied up the core features and frozen the feature releases we will post full complete list but we will post up an summary shorly

~Dazzle Development Team~