Ionize has now its own website !

Please visit :
Ionize CMS website and Ionize Community Forums for discussions about it.

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Technical information
Ionize is built on :
- CodeIgniter 1.7.1
- Mocha UI for the user interface

The core of CI was very slightly modified, to ensure further evolution of CI.

Online demo
The online demo is available at : http://demo.ionizecms.com
To see the admin panel online : http://demo.ionizecms.com/admin
user : demo
pass : demo

Follow the project
You can also download the last trunk version :
http://www.assembla.com/spaces/ionize

Download it !
You can download it at : http://www.ionizecms.com
You will find the documentation at : http://www.ionizecms.com/user-guide

Requirements
- PHP 5.2
- MySQL
- Read the online or offline documentation !

Installation steps
1. Download the last Ionize zip package,
2. Copy the ionize zip package content to your server,
3. Launch http://your-domain/install and follow the installation steps,
4. Delete the /install folder after the installation is complete in order to use Ionize.

It is strongly recommended to install the example data for the first use. Composed of one template and database content, they will help you to create your first Ionize based website.

Have fun!

Important remark
Even if the doc is not yet complete, it will help you to understand how to use Ionize.
If you don’t find any answer to your question in the doc, don’t hesitate to ask !

thanks for sharing

Looks promising!

The Ionize team have obviously put a great deal of effort into this application. Thanks guys, you’ve done a great job.

great job!

Alrighty, I’d like to offer my assistance

Installation:

The first screen to install Ionize fails if your server does not have short_tags enabled. CodeIgniter’s ability to automatically rewrite them can’t kick in yet as the installer is not really a CI app.

This is easy enough to fix - in the install/views folder do a search/replace on the view files and replace “<?=” with “<?php echo “

Here’s the fixed files, attached.

oohh wow thanks for the link can’t wait to try it out

It looks good on the online demo, just downloaded it and installing it now to try!

Michel-Ange - 15 November 2009 12:13 AM

Important remark
Even if the doc is not yet complete, it will help you to understand how to use Ionize.
If you don’t find any answer to your question in the doc, don’t hesitate to ask !

Thank you for the great and hard work!
I will try the CMS

@BrianDHall : I modified the zip package with your modifications. Thanks !

As you saw it, the installer is a “little” CI, as it don’t use the CI dispatcher but its own one which loads some CI libraries.

Thanks all for your very warm welcome of Ionize !

About the doc :
For the moment, the PDF is the most advanced one. I have to complete the online one.
For the API, even the code is - from my point of view - well documented, I have to make a choice concerning the tool I will use to generate it…

hi michel-ange

When installing from ubuntu9.10 on my laptop I have encountered two erros when installing. They both occur at step 3 when setting up the account. I have managed to fix the first error but not the second.

Reason: You require the mcrpyt library in php
Solution: Install and configure the php mcrypt package. Details can be found at
PHP Manual - Mcrypt setup

for ubuntu
sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt
and add the line “extension=php_mcrypt.so” to /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

Maybe a check for the Mcrypt library can be included at the requirements page at the start?

I’m confused with this one since it says that is a non-object when clearly there is an instance of CI loaded.

@andrewtheandroid : The check of the Mcrypt package will be added to the install check and also to the requirements list.

Concerning the second error :
As the installer loads the CI DB class - but without instantiating a CI object - this error can only comes from one CI translated error message.
I’m confused about this error, does it appears when you try to save your user account ?

I’m confused about this error, does it appears when you try to save your user account ?

Yes it appears exactly after i try to click “save and go to next step” in step 3/4.

@andrewtheandroid : the problem comes perhaps from writing database config file : PHP has perhaps not privileges to write in /application/config.

To be sure everything is OK after the database setup (step 2), check the file :
/application/config/database.php

Are all the required config items present : hostname, username, database, password ?

Installing went ok (local using WampServer on windows), just one problem know.

The demo website works, the login doesn’t work here. When I go to admin and fill in the user name and password and press login, nothing happens. The page seems to reload but no login, loginpage with username and password (****) stays visible.

Any suggestions?
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It is working know!

@BlueRabbit : Restart an install and create an account with :
- username : 4 chars minimum
- password : 4 chars minimum, 40 chars max.

Will add these checks to the installer.