Ionize - Free & Open Source creative CMS

[eluser]draconus[/eluser]
This looks like a promising CMS, but i am unable to get it to install. After clicking "Save and Go to Next Step" for step 3/4 of the installer, a blank page appears and it never adds the user to the database. However, the database settings in database.php are correct, and the installer is having no issues creating the ionize tables. Please help me to troubleshoot this. Thanks...

Interestingly, I put an echo 'test'; into the installer.php file throughout the _save_user function and resending until it dissapeared, and the echo stopped appearing right after the encrypt function call. Therefor I assume that the function is damaged in some way.

Code:

function _encrypt($str, $data)
    {
        // Get the Access lib config file
        include(APPPATH.'config/access.php');
    
        $hash = sha1($data['username'] . $data['join_date']);
        $key = sha1($config['encrypt_key'] . $hash);

        return base64_encode(mcrypt_encrypt(MCRYPT_BLOWFISH, substr($key, 0, 56), $str, MCRYPT_MODE_CFB, substr($config['encrypt_key'], 0, 8)));
    }