Dazzle Development Blog

As we are near to the completion of our latest change over well lets first explain whats changed some of you may know this and others may not know this that recently we started implementing an file system so what does this mean to you

that means your arrays that you load settings from your json encoded strings, your ini, xml and even php classes can be read in our filesystem

we have completed the filesystem and we are just testing everything is working as we all know things may of worked when we started this framework but could stop working so we are puttign together some test cases but these are not just there for us to be able to test all the features without the cms

but also show you in simple terms how to use our framework when you start developing modules.

we did release 2 betas last year and i was unhappy with some of the system core for many reasons i did have alot of hardcoded functions until i had x feature i was looking for now i have some of the basic features working my main goal is to get everything that really should be in classes as i really dont like cloning the same function over and over or the system looking like phpnuke in its code so we are going to start code cleanup this will not be an long process at all as we will be building about 5 new frameworks over the next 2 weeks which we hope to be completed and we can ship public betas as i will feel after i changed this that nothing big or major going to change in the files or the database.

as this has been an long process to where i have everything now once the new framework is ready our job will be to rewrite all of the admin modules as alot of these were just backported from phpnuke as the system was inspired by phpnuke, i wanted to keep that feel about the system from an admin point of view so each of these modules will be rewritten complely using out classes for example , using our template engine, any design will go though our template engine, to there will be complete control of every aspect of the system.

even we don’t officially have any modules with the cms as soon as we have our few basic modules news, forums, downloads these were developed in the early beta but no longer work with our current beta so we will have to rewrite alot of these to make them work again and we need to implement some of our web2 features from ajax powered forms .

our goal is to have an cms that’s easy to use , thats built apon php5 easy to anyone to create modules and add new features with very little coding

we even do have plans for an module thats creates features for you with no coding just using our form classes position the forms, textareas we do plan to have the cms released and in the final versions by this summer and plan to enter the cms for google summer of code for 2010

we keep you updated on our progress so you can see whats going on at the dazzle cms development keep an eye on our blog as we will try update this more regularly