Good day,
% username% .
At the beginning of the summer, the
announcement of the
cogear site management system was published.
Features of the engine:
- Powered by CodeIgniter framework .
- Modular architecture. Installation / removal of modules in one click.
- A wide range of application systems. The distribution provides the ability to create a community with multi-user blogs, but thanks to the extensible architecture of the engine's transformation capabilities there is a great many.
- Flexible hook system. Allows you to modify any controllers and models without affecting their code.
- Open source.
- Internationalization.
- Automatic loading of classes / models.
- Optimize download speed (combining CSS and JavaScript files).
- Tag support caching (works with file system and memcached).
- Ability to load styles and scripts for certain browsers (goodbye IE6).
- Own template making it possible to work with PHP-Native.
- Detailed documentation , including PDF .
The announcement was promised to launch the engine in open access within two weeks. June 16, the official website was launched. Since the system is being developed by one person and it was the first experience of this kind of activity, beta testing in a closed circle was not provided.
It is always nice to learn from your mistakes - the engine has passed the beta testing stage among people interested and visiting the site.
The main bugs were fixed in a short time, after which work began on changing the key nodes of the engine (core, templating engine, etc.). As practice has shown, many bugs creep up on the server, which are difficult to see when working on a local machine. Having overcome the difficulties, I was able to go further than planned, based on the experience gained.
Over the past month, all tasks were performed:
- Rewritten kernel.
- Quicky template engine replaced by its own, compatible with PHP-Native .
After this step, the engine began to work correctly under Windows . - Implemented many of the ideas that have appeared in the process of running the engine on the server.
- Fixed all known bugs.
The current version
1.0 , which was released today, should be considered stable.
In order not to repeat everything that has already
been said , I will not go into details (there is
documentation for this). Screenshots will tell about everything.

I invite everyone to visit the
official site management system
cogear .