Ask HN: Would anyone be interested in using a new Codeigniter Admin Type Module?

5 points by aniketpant ↗ HN
Please note that the project is not a front-end utility but more of a starting point for new projects.

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"

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I use Codeigniter for a lot of my projects since its so easy to get going with it, with that said, I would definitely be interested.

For authentication I use Tank_Auth. Are you happy with SimpleLoginSecure?

Tank_Auth was my first go actually, but then SimpleLoginSecure had all these premade functions which were easy to use and configure. And it had bcrypt too. It's quite awesome, but I plan to rewrite the library for the project.
I might look into SimpleLoginSecure, thanks. Good luck with the project.
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