Monkeyprint - a new flexbile cms made with CodeIgniter.

[eluser]loathsome[/eluser]
Hi there.

Over the past weeks I've been tumbling around with CodeIgniter, and my project has evolved into becoming a full fledged CMS! I'm coding a little bit on it every day, and I'm planning on releasing it under the GNU General Public License when I'm done.

Some of it's key features are:

- Very simple to use. AJAX used a lot: Drag and drop, on-the-fly actions etc
- Very flexible. Intergrates easily with ANY design
- Secure
- Lightweight, yet very powerful
- Easily extendable.
- Built entirely upon CodeIgniter

I created a small video to show off some of it's functions. It's still in early development stage, and most code has been written for the backend. The front end gui is still under heavy development. Here's the video:

http://mindmonkey.net/monkeyprint_preview1.wmv

It's a small setup where it's running my also in-development blog, mindmonkey.net.

I don't need any help or anything yet, but when I get a bit further into development I'll probably need some translators etc. This is just something I'm doing in my spare time, because I love what I do :-)

This thread is meant to show off and post about further development. Any input is highly appreciated. Anything you want to see in the system? Any comments? Hit me!

When the project has evolved a bit more, I'll release an open beta to all you CI fans as well. I can't say how long it will take, but I'm usually spending 1-2 hours a day on this project.

- loathsome

... (yes, I like monkeys)

[eluser]awpti[/eluser]
Very nice!

I like what I see so far.

[eluser]Colin Williams[/eluser]
Looks like a good system brewing. Good on ya!

[eluser]Vik[/eluser]
What software did you use to produce the video?

[eluser]loathsome[/eluser]
Thanks you two

@Vik: I used Camtasia Studio.

[eluser]wiredesignz[/eluser]
It looks awesome loathsome. Good work man.

[eluser]Randy Casburn[/eluser]
@loathsome -- awesome dude! Good on ya.

Randy

[eluser]Xeoncross[/eluser]
Do you have any profiler stats you could post?
How big is it?
And what JS framework are you using?

(...my monkeys are jumping off of trees to get a better look...)

[eluser]daulex[/eluser]
Very impressive. I can't wait to get my hands on it Yes, I also am curious what framework you are using (please say jQuery).

In the video, you edit the content, I love the simplicity of it, but I did not understand the way it works, to what extent html works, as you just started 2 new lines without using br or p, I just wanted to understand how that works.
A suggestion to how it probably should work is the wordpress editor, here is a screen shot of it. It is really simple and works great.

Another thing is the edit content page, it's perfect if you have a bit of general content, however when you have a big list, finding the one you want to edit will be a pain, maybe you could include something like view content by categories and/or an ajax search?

I am not much of a php developer myself, more of a designer/templater/project manager , however I could help you with translations into Russian and Latvian, if you are interested in those two languages.

[eluser]loathsome[/eluser]
@Xeoncross: I'd rather not post any stats now, as it's under development.

@daulex: I am indeed using jQuery :-) I've developed a custom javascript library to help out with common ajax tasks. I know this is going to be implemented in a later version of CI, but hey! :p

Per today, the output of content is using the auto-typography helper. All html is accepted, and every new paragraph is covered with <p>-tags.

Ajax-search/autocomplete, and sortable tables etc. are already being implemented in the edit-content/users etc. page. As it is in the video is just a simple demonstration of how the system works.

I'd surely appreciate translation to about every language, but I won't start with that until the first beta release is out.

Thanks everybody for the encouraging comments!!