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Hi everyone! ?
I'm excited to introduce Aksara 6, the latest generation of Aksara, an open-source full-stack framework and CMS built to make application development faster without sacrificing flexibility.

Aksara has been evolving for years, and version 6 brings together the tools I commonly need when building real-world applications into a single, integrated development ecosystem.

Rapid Development
Aksara is designed around reducing repetitive work. CRUD interfaces, forms, validation, relationships, filtering, pagination, authentication, access control, and many other common application requirements can be handled with significantly less boilerplate. You can use the abstraction when it saves time and still write your own logic whenever you need full control.

Modular+
Build features as independent modules instead of growing everything inside a monolithic application structure. Modules can contain their own controllers, models, views, configurations, assets, and other resources, making applications easier to organize, maintain, and extend.

Route+
Aksara extends conventional routing with automatic route discovery and smarter endpoint resolution. The goal is simple: spend less time maintaining repetitive route definitions while keeping routing predictable and customizable when you need it.

Frontend+
Aksara isn't only about the backend. Frontend+ provides an integrated system for themes, templates, reusable components, views, layouts, and assets, with straightforward customization and overrides.

REST API
Web application and API development don't need to live in separate worlds. Aksara provides REST API capabilities that can work alongside your regular application, allowing the same underlying resources and business logic to serve web interfaces, external applications, mobile clients, or third-party integrations.

AI Assistance
Aksara 6 also introduces AI directly into the content workflow. AI can assist with creating, translating and refining content while remaining part of the existing content-management experience rather than becoming a separate tool. It's an early step, and I'm planning to explore much more around AI integration in future releases.

I18N+ (Multilingual)
Aksara makes multilingual development less repetitive with a built-in translation system designed to work across the application. Instead of manually maintaining translations everywhere, translatable phrases can be collected and managed centrally, making it easier to add new languages, keep translations consistent, and reuse the same phrases across modules, themes, and application interfaces.
The translation layer integrates naturally with Aksara's modular structure, so modules can remain portable while still supporting application-wide localization. This makes internationalizing an application less about wiring things together and more about simply providing the translations.

Built for Real Applications
Beyond these headline features, Aksara includes the things I've needed while building actual applications: authentication, role-based access control, file management, localization, configurable modules, database abstraction, content management, themes, extensibility, and more.

And underneath all of this is CodeIgniter 4.
Aksara doesn't try to hide or replace CodeIgniter. Instead, it adds another development layer on top of it. When Aksara's abstractions fit the job, they can save a lot of repetitive work. When they don't, you're still free to work directly with CodeIgniter.

Aksara 6 is open source, and I'm continuing to develop and improve it.

I'd love to hear what the CodeIgniter community thinks. Feedback, criticism, ideas, bug reports, and contributions are all welcome.
Demo: https://demo.aksaracms.com (admin:admin123)
GitHub: https://github.com/abydahana/aksara

Thanks for checking it out!

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I am in the process of creating an API that uses OAuth2 authentication. What are the recommended extensions? And where can I probably find example code for using OAuth2 for an API?

I'm working on a small gaming project with a web backend built in CodeIgniter. The game needs to send things like player progress, unlocked levels, scores, and settings to the server so they can be restored if the player changes devices.
I'm currently thinking about separating the API endpoints for authentication, player profiles, and game progress, but I'm unsure how much logic should stay in the controllers versus being handled by models or separate service classes.
For those who have built APIs for games or other applications with frequently updated user data, what structure has worked well for you in CodeIgniter?
I'm particularly interested in avoiding overly complicated controllers while keeping the API easy to maintain as the project grows.

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I'm trying to install IonAuth using the installation info provided by Ben Edmunds but have struck a weird (I think) issue. Composer is telling me my PHP is the wrong version, but it's not. This is the output from composer:

Quote:Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
Problem 1
    - Root composer.json requires benedmunds/codeigniter-ion-auth 4.x-dev -> satisfiable by benedmunds/codeigniter-ion-auth[4.x-dev].
    - benedmunds/codeigniter-ion-auth 4.x-dev requires codeigniter4/framework ^v4.3 -> satisfiable by codeigniter4/framework[v4.7.2, v4.7.3, v4.7.4].
    - codeigniter4/framework[v4.7.2, ..., v4.7.4] require php ^8.2 -> your php version (8.1.34) does not satisfy that requirement.

Use the option --with-all-dependencies (-W) to allow upgrades, downgrades and removals for packages currently locked to specific versions.

Installation failed, reverting ./composer.json and ./composer.lock to their original content.