Add author management functionality and update routing rules

- Updated .htaccess rules to allow trailing slashes for specific routes.
- Introduced a new .gitignore file to exclude the cache directory.
- Created project configuration file for Serena with language and tool settings.
- Implemented Authors class for managing author data, including methods for saving, deleting, and editing authors.
- Added factory class for Authors to handle database interactions related to authors.
- Developed Article class to manage article data and interactions, including fetching articles and updating views.
- Created Page class with a placeholder method for sorting pages.
- Added front factory class for fetching author details with caching.

autoload/admin/view/class.Pages.php

@@ -11,15 +11,15 @@ class Pages
     $tpl -> step       = $step;
     return $tpl -> render( 'pages/subpages-browse-list' );
   }
-  
-  public static function browse_list( $menus, $modal = false )
+
+  static public function browse_list( $menus, $modal = false )
   {
-    $tpl = new \Tpl;
-    $tpl -> menus = $menus;
-    $tpl -> modal = $modal;
-    return $tpl -> render( 'pages/pages-browse-list' );    
+    return \Tpl::view( 'pages/pages-browse-list', [
+      'menus' => $menus,
+      'modal' => $modal
+    ] );
   }
-  
+
   public static function page_articles( $page_id, $articles )
   {
     $tpl = new \Tpl;
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Pages
     $tpl -> articles = $articles;
     return $tpl -> render( 'pages/page-articles' );
   }
-  
+
   public static function page_edit( $page, $parent_id, $menu_id, $menus, $layouts, $languages, $settings )
   {
     $tpl = new \Tpl;
@@ -39,23 +39,23 @@ class Pages
     $tpl -> languages  = $languages;
     $tpl -> settings   = $settings;
     return $tpl -> render( 'pages/page-edit' );
-    
+
   }
-  
+
 	public static function menu_edit( $menu )
 	{
     $tpl = new \Tpl;
     $tpl -> menu = $menu;
     return $tpl -> render( 'pages/menu-edit' );
 	}
-  
+
   public static function pages_list( $menus )
   {
     $tpl = new \Tpl;
     $tpl -> menus = $menus;
-    return $tpl -> render( 'pages/pages-list' );    
+    return $tpl -> render( 'pages/pages-list' );
   }
-  
+
   public static function subpages_list( $pages, $parent_id = null, $step = 1 )
   {
     $tpl = new \Tpl();