Press Release: CICON

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Tickets On Sale For CICON2011: The First US CodeIgniter Conference

If you’ve been waiting for a chance to meet other CodeIgniter developers or experience great CI talks masterclasses then the wait is over! Tickets are now on sale for CodeIgniter Con 2011 US and are available via Eventbrite. They are currently going at Early-Bird rates so act quickly to get your discounted ticket before the offer runs out.

CICON2011 US is the first CodeIgniter-only conference in the United States, and will be taking place at New Work City in lower Manhattan, New York, on August 20-21 2011. Speakers including Zach Kitzmiller, Eric Barnes, Greg Aker, John Crepezzi, Dan Horrgian, and Kenny Katzgrau will be presenting and conducting masterclasses on topics for developers new to CodeIgniter and advanced CI developers looking to gain new skills and knowledge. For a developing list of what’s in store, check out the programme.

For anyone still not entirely sure if they should come, check out this promo video put together by CICON2011 showcasing some of the top members of the CodeIgniter community talking about discovering and using CI, including Rick Ellis(!), Derek Allard, Pascal Kriete, Greg Aker, Phil Sturgeon, Kenny Katzgrau and Eric Barnes.

Contact:
Adam Fairholm
954-871-3112
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Posted by Leslie Doherty on April 21, 2011

CodeIgniter 2.0.2 Released

An update to both CodeIgniter Reactor and CodeIgniter Core (v 2.0.1) was released today. This is a security maintenance release and is a recommended update for all sites. The security fix patches a small vulnerability in the cross site scripting filter. We also took the opportunity to iterate on some of our other filtering code. As a result, the Security library is now a core component.

Please make sure you follow the upgrade instructions. Core users can grab the 2.0.1 tag on BitBucket. For core, please follow the upgrade instructions bundled with the download.

We’re working on making these small maintenance releases easier to manage. We’ll have more information about that soon.

Posted by Pascal Kriete on April 07, 2011

Reactor Engineer Opening

If you follow the Reactor team, you probably already know that the venerable Ed Finkler had to resign from his position due to personal time constraints.  That means that we have an opening, so if you feel that you qualify, please email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) the following:

1. CodeIgniter Username
2. Link to your site profile, e.g. https://codeigniter.com/forums/member/18457/
3. Three of your biggest contributions to CodeIgniter (can be code, a particular bit of feedback, etc.)
4. A brief paragraph stating why you think you should be considered.

You can also nominate someone else by emailing the above information on their behalf.  In that case, please also include your CodeIgniter Username and link to your site profile along with your nominee’s.

If you submitted an application the first time around, please just send a brief email indicating that you are still interested.  We received a number of great applications, but we do need to ensure that the interest and time commitments have not changed.

Thanks Ed for the time you were able to give to the Reactor project, EllisLab and the community appreciate it!

Posted by Derek Jones on March 07, 2011

System Maintenance, Saturday, February 12

The EllisLab family of sites will undergo a maintenance window Saturday, February 12, starting at 8pm US Pacific Time (GMT -8).  Downtime should be brief, but the maintenance window is scheduled to be concluded by 11pm.

During this time, if you require access to our online documentation or software downloads, I’d like to remind you that they are available at BitBucket.  There you can download a zip file, fork or clone your own local copy.  If you have not used BitBucket before, you can sign up for free here.

Posted by Greg Aker on February 10, 2011

CodeIgniter 2.0.0 Released

Today EllisLab and the CodeIgniter Reactor Engineers are proud to announce the first official release of CodeIgniter 2.0.0, which is being released in two flavors:

CodeIgniter Core

Core is a slow-moving branch that will be used as the base for EllisLab commercial products such as ExpressionEngine and MojoMotor. It will continue at a similar pace that CodeIgniter has in the past and will be useful for large commercial applications that require the upmost in stability and backward/forward compatibility at a pace more typical of SLA backed Enterprise products.  Core is publicly available with tagged downloads at BitBucket.

CodeIgniter Reactor

Reactor is a community driven branch of CodeIgniter that will enable faster adoption of the best community submitted code to the framework. This means the community can create a fork of the project on BitBucket and contribute bug fixes, new features, documentation improvements, etc and have it reviewed by a code-review team called Reactor Engineers. These Engineers are primarily responsible for driving the development of the framework.

Changes and features made by EllisLab to Core will be merged into Reactor, and EllisLab will actively contribute to Reactor’s development.  Reactor is the recommended version of CodeIgniter for use in the majority of day to day work. When you see “CodeIgniter” by itself on this web site, it is referring to CodeIgniter Reactor.  The downloads, documentation, and forums all reflect this change.  Put simply, Reactor = CodeIgniter.

Some of the big changes to happen in CodeIgniter 2.0 since CodeIgniter 1.7.3 are:

 
• Support for PHP 4 is gone, PHP 5.1 is now a requirement.
 
• CSRF Protection built into the form helper
 
• Drivers
 
• Application Packages
 
• Scaffolding, having been deprecated for a number of versions, has been removed.
 
• Removed the deprecated Validation Class.
 
• Plugins have been removed, in favor of Helpers.
 
• Added routing overrides to the main index.php file, enabling the normal routing to be overridden on a per “index” file basis.
 
• Added $route[‘404_override’] to allow 404 pages to be handled by controllers.
 
• 50+ bugs fixed

Reactor contains all of these above and some nice changes of its own:

 
• Full query-string support
 
• Automatic base_url detecion if left blank
 
• New Cache driver with file system, APC and memcache support
 
• Command line compatibility for easy cron jobs
 
• 20+ tweaks and improvements

Have a look at the change log for the full list of improvements and enhancements.

The Engineer team is also working on, or close to completing these features for a future Q1 release:

User Guide Note Contribution

Users will soon be able to contribute notes to each page in the user guide in the fashion that php.net currently allows. This will make CodeIgniter’s already-extensive documentation even more useful as time goes on. The new comment system is versioned, which will allow obsolete comments to be pruned from newer version without affecting older ones.

Authentication Driver

A common request for a long time (and with almost 800 votes on UserVoice) is an Authentication library. This is something we would like to do if the right solution and approach can be found, but it will take time and a lot of work to make a solution generic enough for everyone without being overly complex.

A More Object-like Model

A backward-compatible tweak currently in testing is a feature that allows active-record results to be returned as instances of the models they represent. This will allow for a more semantic approach to dealing with database rows.

CodeIgniter is now a much more community-oriented framework than it has been in the past. You can submit pull requests via BitBucket or Phil’s GitHub mirror. You’ll also see new releases far more frequently.

What are you waiting for?  Download it now and start cloning!

- The Reactor Team

Posted by Phil Sturgeon on January 28, 2011