InkType Alpha 2008.01.13.3 Available for Download

[eluser]wemago[/eluser]
good work for a alpha release

settings are not being saved at least here and logout doesn't really logs out.

[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
Awesome - please keep it coming! I am taking note of each and every issue posted here.

Thanks!!

[eluser]ralf57[/eluser]
First of all,
my congrats for your work.
Anyway, i don't see the need to have a Wordpress clone built on CI.
If you like how WP is done and feels, just use it.
Every effort should be put to build something original, even a blog platform, bringing new ideas.
Just my 2 cents.

[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
@ralf57:

Thanks for your input! I do admin that right now the admin backend has drawn inspiration from the WP interface.

I've done this for a couple of reasons:

1 - Familiarity. Simplicity.
2 - To get InkType started in alpha stage and out there for input and comments.

The goal isn't to have a WordPress clone - it's simply to build a fully featured free and open source blogging platform on CI. I don't look at other blogging platforms as WordPress clones, and there are a lot out there.

Another goal of the project is to hopefully provide beginners with examples of how things are done (or maybe how things are *not* done!):

- How pagination can be accomplished w/o the CI library (the logic can easily extend outside of CI)
- How to efficiently build an admin interface
- How to set up a system with different templates/views
- Give an all around general example of how models, views and controllers can interact with each other
- To help show that CI is as kick-ass of a framework as it claims to be!

Along with all of this, I am planning on learning a *TON* from you guys with your input, comments, ideas, bug reports and all of that fun stuff. I would like this to be as much of a community project as it can be, and I think InkType has a big future ahead of it!

[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
[quote author="BoltClock" date="1197490506"]- Not a suggestion for InkType itself, but perhaps we should start a mini design contest here at CI among ourselves and see which theme ends up as InkType's default theme! Originality would make InkType stand out a little
[/quote]

Personally I think that could be a fun idea. What does everybody else think? I am not a designer - nor do I care to be. I am lucky if I get out the front door dressed half-ass coherently -- colors and design and all that just isn't my thing. Typically what I do is use open source CSS templates from sites such as this one: http://www.openwebdesign.org. This gives me the time to concentrate on the engine of it all, which is where I get my kicks.

Anyway, great idea. Maybe there will be enough interest here to spark it to life. Thoughts, everybody?

[eluser]wemago[/eluser]
go for it, its my opinion about that, it's a really funny idea to see
what is going to come from the users

[eluser]Developer13[/eluser]
InkType alpha01.1 has been released. See first post in this thread or my signature link for the changelog.

[eluser]BoltClock[/eluser]
[quote author="Developer13" date="1197501337"]I am not a designer - nor do I care to be. I am lucky if I get out the front door dressed half-ass coherently -- colors and design and all that just isn't my thing. Typically what I do is use open source CSS templates from sites such as this one: http://www.openwebdesign.org. This gives me the time to concentrate on the engine of it all, which is where I get my kicks.

Anyway, great idea. Maybe there will be enough interest here to spark it to life. Thoughts, everybody?[/quote]

Your username isn't Designer13 so I understand you there

Once enough people agree to this idea (hopefully) we'll probably discuss it in a separate thread

[eluser]fredwu[/eluser]
I wouldn't mind designing some templates for it! :-)

* El Forum goes back to designing templates for Wordpress...

[eluser]Thoer[/eluser]
It's getting a lot better, but yesno_helper.php still has that illegal 'bool' in it:

Code:

<?

function yesno(bool $value) {
    
    if ($value == TRUE) {
        return ("Yes");
    }
    
    else {
        return ("False");
    }
    
}

?>

Someone also mentioned that using '<?' is a bad habbit and I would also like to see '<?php'-s instead, but still, you did a great job!