Ionize, creative CI CMS to be released very very soon !

[eluser]jcavard[/eluser]
[quote author="Michel-Ange" date="1258152032"]Hmmm... Did I announce the demo was launched and I'm so tired that I do not remember ?
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maybe the thread title is a little misleading... can't (hardly) wait either, but I won't die

[eluser]hugle[/eluser]
[quote author="Michel-Ange" date="1258152246"]So... die ! [/quote]

why?
post the S R C ! ! !

[eluser]Michel-Ange[/eluser]
More seriously : the (little) demo front-end is online : http://demo.ionizecms.com

So you can have an idea about what can be done with Ionize.

@hugle : Someone is already complaining about a buggy installation... Do you want buggy sources or do you let me correct it so it will be perfect ?

Thanks all to be so impatient. It's motivating !

[eluser]ondo[/eluser]
I am sorry for complaining, i didn't realize you are working on it right now... take time, no hurry... I wait as long as it needs...

[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
It might help if the thread title was changed to "Ionize, creative CI CMS to be released very soon!"

[eluser]Michel-Ange[/eluser]
@BrianDHall : I heard you.

But I added one "very" !

[eluser]Michel-Ange[/eluser]
The Administration demo is online at : http://demo.ionizecms.com/admin

user : demo
pass : demo

You will be logged as "editor".
Editors don't have access to :
- Users administration
- Module administration
- View (templates) declaration
- System settings (database, thumbnails, etc.)

The database and the users file folder (containing media) are refreshed every hour.

Some tips about content editing :
- Each article translation can be online / offline. That means if an article is online but not its translation, it will not be displayed.
- In the media editor, you will see folders prefixed by "thumb_". These folders are automatiquely generated when adding a picture to an article, depending on the number of defined thumbnails. Normally, you don't need to attach pictures from these folders to articles / pages.

The zip package will follow.

[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
*giggles with glee* Oh my, this is rather fun!

So far its just lovely. Really beautiful template, and stunningly easy. Click, click, it works. Like it!

Now what I look forward to seeing is how easy is it to totally retemplate it, and how it is for being extended.

Thus I have questions for the existing team.

In your creation of Ionize, is its design such that it should be able to be extended and stretched into behaving differently than purely a CMS? For instance if someone wants to build a classified ad sort of site where people pay to put and edit ads onto the website - has this sort of manipulation of the original intent of the system likely to be straightforward due to the the way Ionize is made?

By that I mean is it relatively loosely coupled (so its core functionality like adding pages can be exposed to allow a script to call add_article() and it doesn't solely require you to do such through the admin panel), designed to be extended and re-arranged?

Is it designed to allow some sort of custom additions, like if a person wants to ad an Advertisement that is like a custom article, given special treatment by the template. Or if a person wants to have Pages that are actually product galleries, and then allow Reviews that can still be maintained through the admin.

Are such things parts of the goals of Ionize?

[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
One more question.

The above questions were regarding using Ionize for both front-end and back-end, but how about using it for back-end only?

I've wanted to do as some have suggested and use wordpress for a backend, but that seems incredibly heavy-weight over-complicated overkill for what I want to use it for. I just want someone other than me to be able to edit portions of the webpage

Is Ionize's database schema, or exposed api, such that it wouldn't be too hard to link into its stored pages to use as partial views, or to use its built-in auth?

[eluser]andrewtheandroid[/eluser]
wow the demo looks fantastic!