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The CodeIgniter Bug Tracker that has been running at CodeIgniter.com has finally been closed in favor of the issue tracker at BitBucket.  We’ve found that the reports actually tend to be of higher quality at BitBucket, and of course integration with our repository is a boon.

If you reported bugs at the old Bug Tracker that did not get addressed, please be aware that we do have an internal archive of all reported bugs.  However, if you can still reproduce a bug using the current in-development code, it would be appreciated if a new issue were logged against that code at BitBucket.

If you do not have a reproducible bug or cannot provide a reduction test to demonstrate the bug, please post first to the Bug Report forum so the community can help you confirm whether or not it is a bug, and provide guidance for submitting the bug report.

If your browser does not automatically update it for you, don’t forget to change your bookmarks!  CodeIgniter Bug Tracker

Coming in MojoMotor 1.0.4, is a simplified version updater. Here’s a 17 second video preview.

There are remarkable things happening within the CodeIgniter community. One of these is the community run conference, CICON!

CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first all-CodeIgniter conference and is being run in the UK. The conference will be a two-day event on the 14th and 15th of August, which will give you a great chance to meet fellow developers, pick up some new tricks and share your experience with others. The first day will be a series of talks from well-known speakers who have been using CodeIgniter for years in different ways. The second day will be a workshop / master-class day which will be of as much interest to new users as the more experienced users.

In order to get people as involved as possible, they are offering a “Buy a Day 1 ticket and get a Day 2 ticket free” special.

If you’ve ever wanted to rub elbows with a who’s who of the CodeIgniter community, don’t miss this chance.

http://cicon2010.com/

A fix has been implemented for a security flaw in CodeIgniter 1.7.2.  You may obtain the fix either by downloading a fresh copy of CodeIgniter, or downloading this standalone patch.  All applications using the File Upload class should install the patch to ensure that their application is not subject to a vulnerability.

While fixing this bug, we took the opportunity to make an improvement to the Upload class’s ability to allow a file name override.  Previously, you needed to do a little dance in your controller to remove the extension from the file name if you were starting from user input; neither could you override the file extension.  Now when using the “file_name” config override, you will supply the full file name, including the extension, truly overriding the file name provided by the client user agent.

After applying the patch, you will need to adjust your code accordingly if you are using the ‘file_name’ override in the Upload class.  While we are not in the habit of making code changes within a version that has the potential to break compatibility, this change was necessary as part of the security fix.

If you are using CodeIgniter from the Mercurial repository at BitBucket, please make sure you pull the latest files.  Version 1.7.2 has been branched and retagged to include this fix.

We’d like to thank CodeIgniter user alexaholic for bringing this to our attention.  Security is always a top priority for our products, and we make ourselves available to be directly contacted for any security concerns.

One of the things that hasn’t really been made public about MojoMotor is that it has the ability to be themed. This option is available under Settings.

Its my vision that down the line we’ll be able to offer a few official themes, as well as offer community contributed themes. More focus on this will happen after the beta of course. For now though, I’ve been working on a little theme that I think will go over good with everyone. Now I’m not much of a graphic artist, but it’s pretty slick work (if I may be so humble) for a code monkey. It could use a minor bit of polish, but at the end of the day, there’s a little something for everyone.

If you ARE a graphic artist, please don’t be too critical, but I would be very interested to see what everyone thinks! If there’s enough interest, I’ll make it the default theme.

Want to see it? Keep reading!

Well, finally back and enjoying the afterglow of another amazing experience; EECI 2010. Aside from the great things that happened to me personally (I’ll get to those in a moment), it was 3 days of pure and utter awesomeness for the whole ExpressionEngine/CodeIgniter world. I’ll never get to hang out with a more awesome gang then the folks I meet through this world.

Rick Ellis said something unexpected and uniquely insightful during his keynote that really resonated with me. I don’t have the video in front of me for the exact words, but an accurate paraphrase would be “The community is where its at. In many ways, and all the important ones, the software is irrelevant.” As someone who has worked tirelessly over the last 3 or 4 years to build the software he’s referring to, I completely agree with this. The magic-sauce of EE and CI comes from the community of dedicated, passionate people around it. Its easy to forget that when we’re busy fighting deadlines and trying to fix IE bugs.

Now seems about as appropriate a time as any to extend my sincerest thanks to Robert Eerhart, Janneke van Amsterdam, and the entire Whoooz team. These folks put on one of the most professional, well organized, kick-ass experiences I’ve ever enjoyed. Every little detail was tended to, nothing was second rate - I wish I had Robert and Janneke organizing my day to day life… things would be so much better!

The highlight of the trip for me was finally getting to talk about MojoMotor. Mojo is something that I’ve been working on since around Christmas last year, and its been nearly everything I’ve been up to professionally for 5 months. Anyone who’s watched my keynote at EECI2009 knows that I’m a “social coder”. I crave community; and I consider nerding-out with other people to be foundational to the way I work. Keeping Mojo under wraps for 5 months has been killing me! I want to share, I want to say “hey, check out this cool thing I’ve been doing”, but we decided very early on that we wanted Mojo to come as a total surprise. Now that its out there, I’m glad we did.

Response to the news of Mojo has been overwhelmingly positive. I’m really hopeful that people will end up loving it as much as they love CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine. I few secret tidbits that not many people know about MojoMotor:

• MojoMotor was a name that Rick grabbed years ago. He just liked the sound of it. As I was developing MojoMotor it started out with a much different name, but it was quickly apparent that “MojoMotor” was the right name for the little CMS.
• “The publishing engine that does less…” and the concept for the logo both came about in less then 3 minutes during a Skype call between me and Rick. Other parts of the software that I expected to come quickly took WEEKS. Funny how that works.
• The graphic artist who helped us along was Ilina Simeonova. She did stellar work, and her dedication to a project that she had little invested in was inspiring.

And of course, the journey is only just beginning for MojoMotor. The final round of beta testing with “real world” (ie: non-staff) testers is just getting underway, and after that we’re releasing. It’ll be in your hands quickly, I promise. The price has been set at $49.95. I’m looking forward to watching it mature and grow before our eyes.