Thanks alot, Jeff! Maybe be will be good idea for the next screencast to show how implement and use ajax in CI?

At Last!!!! being waiting this all week
Thank You!

PD: Hey Jeff It’s seems that your personal domaing http://www.jeff-way.com/ has expired.

Thanks
been waiting for this episode
Thanks Jeff
Thanks Envato for teaching us all the good stuff
Look forward for the nex one too

I’ve been looking into CodeIgniter for a while. This and all the previous posts will be very handy when I take the plunge.

Thanks Jeff

This is no good, hashing a password with 1 pass of md5 without a salt is not a good idea. Once your database is hacked, hackers can easily look up passwords via a rainbow table. Please reconsider your security implementation.

There are a number of other issues I would fix.

1. Hard-coded link in the “is_logged_in” method.
2. The “is_logged_in” method should be in a library. No need for it to be in a controller.
3. Line 59 of the login controller, assigning the query variable in the “if” statement is pointless, you are not using it.
4. Your logout method should redirect to your index page, not call it. You will end with 2 URLs with duplicate content otherwise.
5. The validate method in the “membership_model” can be improved by changing this :

if($query->num_rows == 1)
{
return true;
}

into this

return (bool) $query->num_rows;

6. This tutorial should be teaching best practices, including a header in multiple goes against the DRY mantra.

-Mathew

I downloaded the movie, and it appears that there is voice problems – it will go out for some seconds and then come back in.

Hey, I just finished building a login / sign up system using codeigniter.

A couple of days too late this tutorial.

I’ll watch it anyway to see if there is anything I missed.

thankyou thats so great i will just start read the post i just had the news by rss

Thanks so much for this Jeff.

I really am learning a lot about CodeIgniter, and programming logic in general, with these tutorials.

Keep it up…they really are helpful and I can’t wait till next week!!!

Best Weekend gift ever! Specially since I have to give a 2-hour introductory tutorial about CodeIgniter to my fellow co-workers on Monday morning.

Thanks a lot!

Awesome. I have started loving CI. I was wondering if there’s any similar framework (easy to get started) for Java.

Don’t use the input object inside your models. Pass the data in.

Models are not meant to be aware of the framework at all.

Nice video Jeff. I would only recommend not to shoot around so fast with windows and app switching, even I got dizzy hah.

CI looks nice.

thank for this epi… waiting for this..
Thanks a lot for providing download link

Does it contain title for next epi???

Hi,

Nice tut Jeff! very well done!

How about a tutorial using a master page template with CI?
ah! using jquery with CI to post form data also would be nice.

Thanx a lot Jeff

I am very interested to see the advanced security CI tut

Thank you Jeffrey for the very good work!!!

Thanks Jeffery!

Do I just use the download link & give up checking iTunes from now on?

excellent!! as always

There’s an issue with CI Sessions in Internet Explorer (at least 6 and 7, but maybe 8 too), in that they don’t really work. There’s a library you can add to make it work properly, and all your code can remain the same. The library uses native PHP sessions, rather than CI’s version.

There’s one on my blog for people that want it

http://www.philsbury.co.uk/blog/code-igniter-sessions

Great stuff! I’ve recently watched the first lessons of CodeIgniter (being a total CodeIgniter noob), and started creating my own CMS from what I’ve learned from your tuts and the great Code Igniter user guide! Been playing with it for a few weeks now and already learned a lot.

Thanks Jef! Will watch this one tonight. Keep ‘um going.

Nice tutorial, I have been waiting for this one!

How about implementing a remember me, in the next tutorial?

Awesome Jeffrey, pure awesomeness.

I’ve been following your CI tutorials, but this really was the one I was waiting for. Can’t wait to hear more on this topic!

Tutorial series that makes me wanna use CodeIgniter

Your series is making me convert to Codeigniter! Thanks and keep up the great work Jeff!

It would be awesome to see some examples of the new cart library releases in 1.7.2. Your tuts are amazing!

Thank you a lot Mr Way

This is some great stuff. Kudos to Jeff.
Would be nice with a part 2 were you show how to tighten the security and so on.

Wow, an hour long tutorial shows the pure dedication that you have to both the tuts+ site, and to CodeIgniter! I have not ever seen an hour long tutorial for anything, anywhere on the net.

I recently released an auth system for CodeIgniter. There are a lot of auth libraries in the CI wiki to choose from, but each with little differences.

If you’re interested in getting a user management and authentication system up and running, you might check out my Community Auth. You don’t have to do it yourself!

Community Auth website w/ download – http://auth.brianswebdesign.com/

CI wiki page – http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Community_Auth/

Awesome thank you very much Mr.Way!

One request: Would it be possible to export your database and include that within the source!

This was a very good tutorial. I like how all the different aspects have been combined in this one (things like templating, sessions, new css properties…)

Would like to see an extended version of this tutorial for day 7. Preferably a little more robust with things like different access levels.

Thanks!

Hey Jeff, for the little research I’ve done so far, I notice that there are “helpers” for Prototype and Scriptaculous. Do you know if there is one for jQuery?
Also, there should be a link to your screencasts on the CodeIgniter Wiki page. I was going to add them my self but I figured I’d be out of line or maybe it’s better once the series is completed.

Thanks

Thank you very much Jeffrey. I waited so long for such a tutorial.

Cheers

Thanks for the awesome tutorial Jeff!!

And thanks so much for showing an easy way to load header/footer in all pages, I asked for it last week.

This is really cool yeah!!! wohoo

Hey Jeff I see Screencasts are no more hosted on Blip.tv is there a reason for that?

Jeff,

The only thing to say is well done and please keep them coming. Your other series have done us a lot of good. Thanks Muchacho!

Great Tut again Jeffrey, we won’t get bored by a hourlong screencast. On the contrary, we love hourlong screencasts as it shows your dedication and commitment to make a decent vid that we all benefit from. Props to you

One thing i’ve been wondering, you have the default controller login, after that you have the controller members_area (iirc) that actually checks if the user is_logged_in, but how do we check that in other controllers ? I mean, it wouldn’t be right to just stuff everything into one controller and model with a load of functions and views.

Btw, are we allowed to give some suggestions for the next tut ? I’d love to see some ajax action to be honest.

dont know if I am the only one who is encountering these problems with screencast.com content, but downloading the video doesnt really work. I get decent download speed for the first half and then it drops to 4-5kb/sec until it stops completley. straming the video is a pain as well.

would love to see this one on itunes, it seems its the only way to get it for me

thanks again

@Kriesi, I am having the same problem with the download link.

wonderful tutorial,

it would be good to see a tut on more detailed session security, combinding the CI session DB in aswell,

also, i noticed you never checked if a username existed before inserting…

Nice tut! trying to learn CI recently, and this is most defo the best way! many thanks, many more tuts to follow i hope!

Do you plan on making the sql available for the whole series?

Very cool tutorial. I have always wanted to learn this stuff. I understand you can only do so much in one video but don’t mind longer videos. Keep it up man. This is extremely helpful when it comes to building websites. This is a skillset that is very important to have.

Thanks

Great Jeffrey, you’re the man!
The web comunity owe you a lot!

Hi Jeff,

Let me first tell you something that I always wait eagerly to watch your Code Igniter Screencast and I’ve learned Codeigniter with the help of all your 6 videos. I really really appreciate your contribution towards Codeigniter Community. You are doing a lot for beginners like me, I really appreciate that! I would like to thank you a lot for such videos. These videos keeps us updated and boost our confidence to learn something new. I saw that Codeigniter 1.7.2 has been released. Hope you will include some new features from that in your videos. Is it possbile for you to include how to used Ajax/Javascript in Code Igniter?

Many Thanks
Vishal

Though I was able to figure most of this out on my own previously, I’ve still been waiting on this exact tutorial. Good lookin out!

Yeah, I just did this for a number of sites over the past few months in CI – but it’s great to see how someone else goes through the same process. No matter what you’re covering – I always pick up little ways to improve my code. And not always in ways directly pertaining to the subject you’re covering.

I’ve been recommending CI to a lot of people – and this is the first place I send them for tutorials. Much better than the ones on the CI site.

Thanks again, Jeffrey! Let’s see some url rewriting in future parts of the series. But really, I’ll watch these tutorials on any CI aspect.

Hello jeff, really great tutorial – as always

But i get a Database Error :S
http://i26.tinypic.com/2cclzer.png

Whats wrong ?

Really cool, thx

Hey Jeff thanks for everything.

Im having some problems.

I decided to create a permission denied view, as per your advice “not to echo from a controller”

as follows
if(!isset($is_logged_in) || $is_logged_in != true)
{
$bata['main_content'] = ‘permission_denied’;
$this->load->view(’includes/template’, $bata);

}
the problem is after doing this, the permission view loads up, but it still displays the contents of the members area page.

Please what do i do ?

Thank You soo much for this tutorial.
this helped me in so many ways

great

Great tutorial! Would like to see a CI tut showing how to dynamically create pages like a cms.

This series is insanely great. This code igniter series along with your “php for beginners” series over at theme forest is really helping me beat the learning curve for PHP. Thanks a bunch Jeffrey!

Hi Jeff, awesome series, but do you know why this video and any video since 25/08 aren’t showing in the NETTUTS iTunes video podcast subscription?

Last video showing is Wordpress for Designers : Day 18?

Thanks!

Although i don’t think you should be learning people the logic behind a login/registration, i do think you are a great teacher. (i did not follow this broadcast). I went on my own after lesson 3 and created my own registration and login (with salting). But i could not get that session to work so i used good old $_session in stead.

I read some request about ajax and Ci, i think this would be a great idea. I made a thickbox with a registrationform and a validation on JS with it but i spent way to much time on it.

So some more claryfication on that subject would be nice.

Just want to end with me saying: you are doing a great job !

Thanks Jeff!

Quick Question. How do I check if the account already exists. for example two users using the same username can be created twice in the db? That doesn’t sound too good. Im sure its only a few lines of code but can anyone lead me in the right direction?

Nice work Jeff!I’m working on my bachelor thesis and the log in form was the edgy thing for me.Thanks a lot!

Awesome – i’ve learnt alot on my own the last few months (ever since discovering CI), but this was the exact tutorial i’ve been looking for to just link everything i’ve learnt together…

once you’ve got your head wrapped around this – give dx_auth a look – it’s really more than enough for just about any site with what it can do in terms of Authentication…

Thankyou Jeff,

Started using CI for my new projects.
Looking for your new tutorials each week.

I must say a very very nice tutorial Jeff! It covers very much basics.. for what I was waiting very excited!

I was wondering if you could also arrange some tutorials for OOP basics?

Greetz, Matt from Slovenia

I have some trouble trying to put the record we pulled from the database when validating login credentials into the cookie/sessiondata.

In the validate function in the membership model i returned $query instead of true so i’d have something to work with. Then in the validate_credentials function in the login controller i added:

$result = $query->row_array();

Now that in itself works and iirc adding the result variable/array to the $data that is later being added to the sessiondata, works also. However the redirect after that doesn’t work anymore. In fact nothing does.

Also, is there a way to get normal error reporting with CI ? It’s driving me completely mad that i’m completely dependant on CI’s errorreporting which is just not cutting it for me.

Kinda solved my own problem here. Instead of returning $query in the validate function of membership_model, i first did:

$q_result = $query->row_array();

and then returned that.

After that i could safely use that value in the validate_credentials function to pass it on into the sessiondata. Even the redirect works.

Anyway, i’d still like to see way to enable normal error reporting.

What do you use to code the CSS and see the changes “on the fly” in FF?

Thanks for the tutorials and keep rocking!

I’m looking forward to an advanced login-tutorial, with password retrieval, salted md5 (how to do it), check if username is already taken and session management by using the db.

Keep em coming

Thanks so much for these videos, Mr. Way. I’ve spent most of my time on this site learning, and figured it would be a good idea to sign up for the plus membership!

I’m loving it, please keep this series running. One of the earlier comments someone asked if you’d do something with the cart class, and a bit of e-commerce in a future tut — I’d really appreciate it if you would consider doing something with that.

Thanks again.

I am really learning a lot from these tutorials Jeff. Keep up the good work. I can’t wait for the next episode.

Hey There Jeff

Egander here – I’m a huge fan of the tuts on CI.
Actually – I dont know wether or not, this is the right place – to put out questions… but trying anyway…

How do i make ci change betweens languages ex: english/french
and all the info is loacated on the appriate database …. ???

Nice if you could post a screencast speciic to this dillema

In advance – thank you for the amazing work, you’re putting into this site
Pure inspiration – thanks again…

I liked that, really nice tutorials series. Thanks you very much for providing this.

I would like to see “Form Validation” & “File Upload” tutorials because I really messed a lot & canceled using Codeigniter in the older version, may be 7-8 months ago. But I hope its lot easier this time.

Thanks again…

Thanks a lot for the tutorial series..

Thank you very much for these awesome tutorials

Jeffrey, any idea when we can expect this episode and the last one to show up on iTunes ? I’d love to keep these things organized

Any idea what the new tut will bring and when it will be released ? You really encouraged me to use this framework and i’d love to see what else is possible.

Hi Jeff, i have to say that you really did a great job, thanks a lot for that. What will be the next step ? Ajax ? Wold be wonderful ! Keep on !

Anyone know how to add the view correctly without it displaying the main contents? I’ve got the view loaded but it displays the members area page as well as the “please sign in” error message. Referencing towards the end when he says to create a view instead of echoing inside of the controller.

This series is awesome! Please keep it coming. I would also like to see some sort Ajax/Jquery with CI tutorial. Best practice methods on implementing it also..

Hey Jeffrey, can you show us how to correctly use AJAX operations with for instance jQuery in one of your future CodeIgniter tutorials?

Hey Jeffrey, great tut as always. All six tuts about CodeIgniter are great. Can You make one tutorial for OsCommerce like shopping cart?

GRACIAS!!!! Thank you Jeff, awesome tutorials =)

hope the next tutorial have some jquery, it will be great =D

Really great tutorial. i don’t hope you will read all these comments but still
i enjoyed it and even found some moments humorous ) you dont needed to worry about the wallpaper. really

You covered quite many things in that single hour. Thanks for the series

Thank you very much Jeff! It would be great how to make a site with a header, menu, content and footer. It’s a very used layout in web design. You are doing an incredible job! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for posting my request Just what I needed. I already have ideas for the next video. PAGINATION

How about more secure version with db sessions and more secure hashes?
phpQuery would also be a nice tutorial subject. i think there is enough of jQuery tuts – at least those simple ones.

I agree, following tutorial should be more secure version of this. Thank you Jeff.

Also, I’ve noticed that every view I now create under site controller, is needs to be for members only. Can we have some kind of more unique way of adding like $is_logged_in to the pages we want to be protected and leave other open to public ? Thanks.

Jeff,

I saw this video and it pretty much instantly made me love net.tutsplus.com… I will be watching all your videos.

The thing about CI sessions is they do not expire when you close the browser. You have to hack the session files in system to make it work that way… but then it ONLY works when you close the browser. It is on or the other.

I wish CI would provide a better session management.

Very helpful tutorial series especially for newbies.

Are you going to show us something more ‘difficult’ ?

For instance, automatic form generator based on MySQL tables.

Does this sound too advanced?

Thanks and again congratz for your work

If anyone is using PHP 5.3+ and getting a message ‘The URI you submitted has disallowed characters.’ then please go to this site for the fix.

http://davidmichaelthompson.com/2009/09/03/fixed-the-uri-you-submitted-has-disallowed-characters-error-codeigniter/

Also, if using PHP 5.3+ then I also had to remove the ‘&’ characters from a couple lines of the ci code to stop getting the deprecation errors.

Peace,
James

Great tool and tutotrial !!!

how do you check for unique username before insert. Is there a shortcut validation rule.

Hey!! JW when the new episode is coming it has been long. Please do not put so much gap in the series other old concepts diminishes away….
Every thing has to revised again..

There is also suggestion :
Why not give us some practice stuff or material or exercise for this series so that we can continue on our self.

This is more a question than a comment on MVC.

How do you decide between creating a new controller function and a new controller file?

thanks Jeff!!

P.S.
Wich is the best CodeIgniter forum out there?

Suggestion for the next tut:

Extend this login form with using captcha.

All I have to say is sweet. Keep them coming.

Jeff this was really good stuff. I’ve learned a lot from your brief tutorial.

I was curious, I’m developing an App where I”ll need both Public and “member only” pages.

I was thinking of making a modules and locking down the member only module to require the user to login.

However, that requires me to use someone else’s HMVC library or Matchbox. I think a login library would be better and I’d load it in the controllers I needed.

The other solution would be to copy paste the login code in EACH controller but lets not do that.

What are your suggestions?

Great tutorial. I have a general question about best practices though. Is there any advantage to having the controller call a model method to validate the login credentials rather than creating a custom callback for the form_validation helper?

I’ve done it the latter way and it seems to work, but I’m interested in other points of view regarding the security and/or transparency of such an approach. I’m afraid that it violates the spirit of the MVC framework by introducing model processing into the controller class.

If that’s the only problem, is there a way to tell the form_validation helper to use a callback from a model class rather than a controller class?

Am I the only one having issue finding the .sql file to load up for these tutorials? I don’t see anything in the downloads, and I’m not too keen to walk through the tutorial and re-type.

I’m sure this is simple, but I could use some help. I must be missing something.

Help appreciated.

This video doesn’t load or download fully.

Great tutorial, i am a complete beginner in CodeIgniter and i am looking forward on more screencast about it.

BTW shouldn’t you close the forms? (You didn’t put </form> or form_close(); at the end of the forms)

I’m not being able to watch the video…
It just gets blank…
But I did watch the other tutorials before.

Is anyone else having trouble with the video from screencast.com ? is there another source for the screencast? Love the series so far, really interested in this particular piece.

Sorry but this video is not available any longer…. ?!? is not playing and when I try to download it it tells me that the link is broken..

I’m having trouble viewing this as well.

Where can I view this tutorial?
Thanks!

I would like have this tutorial too… Is possible have it back?

I also would like to see this tutorial

Thank you Jeff it was a great Screencast.

Good stuff Jeff!

I have a question – is there an easy way to pass messages from a controller to a view? For example, if the user tries to log in, unsucessfully – how would you display a message on the same login page to say “login unsucessful.. etc”?

Finally getting around to going through all these CI tutorials. There great, keep them coming. It would also be nice if you revisited this section and talked about increased security.

Thank you Jeff , this video series helps allot , just one suggestion for future tutorials – please make the video size smaller, I come from a bandwidth starved country.

is Chrome for mac available?? I can see you have it installed!

is Chrome for mac available?? I can see you have it installed!

This tutorial is the best so far, AWESOME work, there is something wrong with the player, it stops before it finish, I try to reload, and no luck, im downloading it, to see if it woks better this way.

GREAT WORK, I have learn so much in the part I see.