Comments on: CodeIgniter From Scratch: Day 1

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:23:00 +0000

Is CodeIgniter a good idea for a heavy traffic site? I’m working on a social app and this looks good but does it scale well? Thanks.

By: cisdevry

cisdevry — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:24:45 +0000

Excellent tutorial. Very helpful. It was clear and you delivered the message. I can’t wait to check out the other video days.
Thanks for sharing this with us
Cisdevry

By: sbisking

sbisking — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:23:24 +0000

Great tutorial, very informative, just might give CI another chance. Learned quite a bit. Looking forward to more CI tutorials. Thank you.

By: Merrick Christensen

Merrick Christensen — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:56:26 +0000

Love this tutorial. Seriously. But consider buying a pop blocker for your mic. Just helps the explosions that make this a little difficult to listen to. Thanks doing this series!

By: Musa

Musa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:38:01 +0000

I don’t like codeigniter as i found, it doesn’t has ORM, No Admin routing, no sense for Model etc etc. Anyway – i was developing a site using CI, it works fine on local(MAMP), but when uploaded to server – it says

“A Database Error Occurred
Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings.”

Someone told me to add
$db[‘default’][‘port’] = “3306”;

but still same error, any idea?

By: Julian Caldwell

Julian Caldwell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:23:28 +0000

Anyone having trouble getting the ScreenCasts to work?

By: chris

chris — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:15:51 +0000

This question make my hairs going down of my head… but ok .
Joomla is a CMS, all is already done for end user … you just have to modify it as you like to fit your goal by adding module, component and templates but you cannot developp everything you want with it.

CodeIgniter is a FRAMEWORK , that’s mean with CI you can build a Joomla CMS like (with a lot of time and skills), and create everything you need or imagine.

FRAMEWORK is a tool to developp faster what you have in mind.
CMS, all is done, just use it.

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:08:19 +0000

Great Tutorial! Just started out with CI today and this has shown me the basic concepts – will be watching the full series. I agree with some of the comments above about the switching of window to window and having loads of other unrelated windows open, it made it a little difficult to follow at certain points.
Also, the video player made it a nightmare to scrub back and forth.

Question: I was intrigued by the Textmate shortcut you used to build the HTML skeleton, something like beginht.. is this custom or standard?

Cheers,
Steve

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:28:16 +0000

I just want to thank you for the tutorial, it was well structured and easy to follow, I’ve been studying PHP for about a month on my own and I liked this framework (CodeIgniter) The way you explained it was very simple and allow some room for my imagination on how can I use it.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:19:56 +0000

I had a weird thing happen – when I tried to use the variable name anotherValue in the data array, the view loaded without any of the data. As soon as I changed the name from anotherValue (in my case to ‘myValue2′ – it worked. ???