Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in using a new Codeigniter Admin Type Module?
Last year, I had started work on a personal project as I was working on a lot of Codeigniter based websites, but then I was just one year old into the Web and work got haywire. My modules were quite messed up as I had picked them up from a number of my projects.
The motivation behind the project was that as a developer I needed a better and faster starting point for my projects. A set framework with a decent UI for my local projects. So, I used Twitter Bootstrap and quickly wound up a small project which I could just fork off for my new projects.
What I was able to build over the couple of months was an admin dashboard with these features -
* bcrypt for password hashing (was using SimpleLoginSecure)
* Add/Edit/Delete Users
* Add/Edit/Delete/Assign User Roles
* Separate website sections for Administrators and Users
* Master Site Management - Site Name and Description
* Notifications for users - Text based (static, manual)
Most of the modules built were quite flexible to be extended/rewritten easily.
After sometime, earlier this year, I started using Laravel and then I felt that most of the features I felt were missing in CI were there in Laravel, and I stopped my project.
From whatever I have learnt over the last few months is quite worthwhile in working on my project again as I can imagine the architecture better. And I have thought of some new interesting modules to incorporate in this version like -
* Modals (based on Twitter Bootstrap) - which can be called via a common controller and extended for different functionality
* User Role based feature assignment
If you would be interested in using such a project for starting your work, I would appreciate some feedback in terms of the features you would be looking for, because each developer has his personal preferences in terms of his starting stack.
Note: The project name was "Igniteplate"