Yeah!!

Thank you Jeff

Been waiting for this!

2nd

really nice… run it through and liked. I’ll look this deeply later, but thanks!

Thank you Jeff, ones again for posting my request. Very good video. I also like that you include the offline download version of the video. Thank you so much.

Thanks for this Jeff! I keep wondering why you aren’t using Windows any more…

I love these CodeIgnitor tutorials! I would love to see some plus tuts on building simple CMS’s and such…

Ah more CI love from Jeffrey should keep me occupied for a little while again.

Btw, do you think you could do something AJaX related in the next one ? Hopefully we’ll see the other screencasts prior to this one on iTunes aswell ?

Jeff, thanks for this tutorial, it’s super useful, I’m going to implement this for one of my projects.
I have a question about the previous tutorial (Code Igniter Day 6), related to the session and cookies. Can I post it here or is there better way to ask you. It’s keeping me up at night and I have not been able to find an answer elsewhere.

Thank you very much for all the quality material that you provide for the community.

Nice Tutorial Jeffrey!

Hi Jeff, maybe in future session you would consider ajax to ci like jquery lib to it. I think it will show the quickness of CI since day 1 of ci series. i’ll wait for it.
thanks.

Finally out, took so long but definitely worth the wait, Thanks Jeff

Way to go Jeff! I’m really enjoying those screencasts! Thx

Hey Jeff, can you also please upload mp4’s for the following videos you did previous. I would like to re-watch them offline on my laptop. I hope I’m not asking to much. Thank you buddy.

Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework
Day 2: Database Selecting Methods
Day 3: Sending Emails
Day 4: Newsletter Signup

I’ve just thought of another idea for your screen casts You can add some kind of low-level music in the background. Will make your videos more fun LOL

Here is data tables for this video, if any one interested
http://gravityfx.org/pub/ci/ci_day7.sql

I do primarily server-side coding. I don’t get my hands on too much design. I always laugh when Jeff says something along the lines, “Gotta do some CSS. Skip ahead if this bores you…” I think those are by far the most fascinating parts!

Since you are doing CI tutorials, I could submit many CakePHP tutorials, maybe. Haha.

To say the truth … Although I’ve made a few work using CI the truth is that, the framework, is deprecated ….

… for a full OOP support… try Kohana… Same thing, but more advanced

You’re my favorite person online, Jeffrey. Keep up the excellent work.

Nice! =)

When will there be an CodeIgniter + jQuery tutorial? That would be awesome!

Jeff,

Kudos on another great tutorial.

Would love to start seeing some jQuery thrown in to show Ajax requests and using jQuery to “2.0″ things like pagination.

Keep up the great work

Just wondering why pagination uses the record number for the paging.

I made my own paging to be like this http://matrixdigital.com/portfolio/page/2/5 where 2 is actually page 2 and 5 is how many records to show. Second one is actually optional.

I dunno I guess personal taste but I find it weird to see 80 in query when moving to page 2.

also I’d like to put my vote in for a cart class tutorial. thnx

Nice tutorial on implementing the pagination with CodeIgniter.
Thanks for sharing.

As usual a good tutorial – keep them coming. Plus I agree with Andy and would love to see some JQuery

Finally its here.. good JW
i have also seen CI pagination tutorials in this site http://www.weblee.co.uk/ its also detailed.

I think this is series wise tutorials so i would not skip it!!!

Finally…… CI Day 7 series…..

Thanks Jeff

Very Useful!!

Finally a pagination tut… yes Im excited!..thanks jeff…
you always bring quality tuts in here

You Are the Good Sir

tks for all this tutorial i’m view all codeigniter series with you it’s gooe .

the tutorial is very good. I would like to see a tutorial on how to create custom helpers/plugins for codeigniter, and maybe use AJAX to take it to the next level.

Thanks JW

I just posted “How to use Codeigniter captcha plug-in Part 1″ here.
http://www.okadadesign.no/blog/?p=276
Someone may be interested in reading this.

Thanks, Jeff! Honestly i was waiting for such tutorial.

where you got that player skin.
I developed similar skin 2 moths ago.

Very nice tutorial, great work…

Jeff-

Thanks for this. Explained very well. One question though. When I use .htaccess to remove the index.php do I need to set the uri_segment to 2? I tried it out yesterday and briefly couldn’t get it to work. I am about to get back into it right now, but if could maybe explain this a little I would appreciate it. Thanks!

I recently dried up my pagination code and shoved it in a override class. Here is the code:

CI =& get_instance();

// Base configuration
$config['base_url'] = base_url() . $base_url;
$config['total_rows'] = $total_rows;
$config['per_page'] = $per_page;
$config['uri_segment'] = $uri_segment;

// Styling
$config['full_tag_open'] = ”;
$config['full_tag_close'] = ”;

// Init
$this->CI->pagination->initialize($config);

return $per_page;
}
}
?>

Save the file as MY_Pagination.php and shove it in your application/library directory.

Here is an example of the call:

$total_rows = $this->pagination->set_pagination(’index.php/exampleURL/index/’, $this->example_model->select_all_count(20), 3, 10);

I return the total_rows so that I can shove it into the main select call:

$data['result'] = $this->example_model->select_all( $total_rows, $this->uri->segment(3));

If your going to have a lot of pagination strewn about your website then drying up your code into an override class is the way to go.

I haven’t styled up my pagination yet, but after watching the tutorial I am inspired and it should only take a few minutes.

Thanks for your hard work on the CI front Jeff.

Cheers,

Lowkase

Oops,

Guess I can’t copy paste an entire class.

If you want the source for the MY_Pagination.php class just shoot me a quick email.

Cheers,

Lowkase

we’ll basically repeat ourselves here jeff,
you deserve some kinda award for all this man,brilliant

JW: Wow. You flew through that haha. Not to the point that it made it hard to follow, just seemed a bit more rushed that some of your others. Great tutorial as usual though, there was one thing I wanted to mention/ask though:

Since you were using the HTML Table library anyway, do you not think it would have been better to use the HTML Table Template option (mentioned in the CI User Guide as Changing the Look of Your Table at http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/libraries/table.html) to define the some of the table characteristics rather than using the css and jQuery to do it all? The main advantage being that, you can style multiple tables within the same page (probably wouldn’t happen, but just in case) using the template rather than having to get really specific with css, and it would eliminate the need for using jQuery to stripe the rows, as CodeIgniter (with the templating) allows you to set the code for row_start and row_alt_start.

Not a big deal, was just something I thought would have been cool to mention..

Jeffrey

I notice you didn’t use model in this tutorial.

Is it to save time?

otherwise great tuts. looking forward to next one

thanks

As always great tutorial. Looking forward to more.

Great Turorial ! PHP community appreciates your contribution…

Jeff,

Next tuts on Ajax with Jquery, plz.

Thanks for great work.

Hi Jeff,

Question :::

Is there a easy way to sort the the table by clicking the table header ?

Have a look at jQuery tablesort: http://tablesorter.com/docs/ for sortable tables.
Great tut as usual Jeffrey, keep’em coming

Excellent stuff. More Codeigniter tutorials please. Can’t get enough of them at the moment. Be good to see a more thorough build on the login tutorial so you don’t have to rely on CI’s cookies. Maybe integrate it with standard php functions to manage sessions?

Keep up the sterling work.

I propose a screencast on ajax and methods to integration it in codeigniter… thanks for these useful screencast

can some tell me is there any difference in using
$config['base_url'] = “http://localhost/ci_nettuts/”;
or
$config['base_url'] = “http://localhost/ci_nettuts/index.php/”;

Well up till now i have seen no difference is it right??

Jeffrey! Thanks alot for the new screencast! Excellent work!
My suggestions for the future screencasts is:
1) template system. as i remember, then i tried CI – it doesn’t have proper template system. i mean, what many another frameworks (yii, cakephp, ruby on rails, etc) have nice layout system. maybe you have any ideas, how to recreate this in CI?
2) ajax stuff. jquery prefered ^)

Hey Jeff, can you please do a video on more database functions like Search, Delete and Form inputs ? Thank you.

Just thought of another idea, why not do a video based on this pagination but with more database involvement like search, delete, add and update functions.

As always… thanks Jeff for a great tutorial on CodeIgniter…. keep them coming!

Sometimes I feel that I made the right decision to stick with CodeIgniter than with the Ruby on Rails stack. Great stuff Jeff!

So Lets say I wanted to add a delete button to the end of each row in the table how would I go about collecting the data in the td’s and so the I can construct a query to delete that row? is that possible using the $this->table->generate($records). or would i have to go a different route. if so any suggestions?

Love the CodeIgnier tuts. I’m in the process of re-designing our company web site in CI, total CMS with login and admin area. Thanks for the kick start Jeff!

I vote for CI and Ajax’s

Hey Jeff, have you had time to upload this following videos in MP4 format yet?

Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework
Day 2: Database Selecting Methods
Day 3: Sending Emails
Day 4: Newsletter Signup

This information has been really useful, thanks for posting. Thanks to all the readers who have also posted comments, situations, etc.. it has really contributed to better understanding and awareness of the many possibilities for its application. Good post.

Jeff,
Keep up the CI tuts. Learning a lot from them. Also, you have my vote for a AJAX/CI tutorial.

Good work on pagination.

Gregg

good clear tutorial!

How can you this with CodeIgniter:

On every page I have a header, footer and a menu. I used to fix this by making index.php, that contained the header, footer and menu, and include a file, based on the querystring.

so, http://www.mysite.com/index.php?p=about
would include(”about.php”) in the index.php

Is there a way to achieve this in CodeIgniter? Or is there perhaps a better way to do this?

There must be some tutorial that how to create helper function and libaraies

Ok Jeffrey, I understood. You won’t upload CI day 5 and Day 6 to blip.tv I am really sad!

Dear Jeffrey Way,

How are you? Hope you will be fine today, Sir I will be thankful if you post the next Topic with CI + jQuery of “AutoComplete” I mean “Auto Suggestion”.

I love your tutorials and websites.

you are doing amazing work for us.

Thank you.

Would it be too much to ask for simple write up of these? I can skim through and pick up the information alot quicker this way, instead of watching a 30 minute video…

Is there any way you can search through the database and display the results in the same way (I’m new to PHP).

Thanks, I love all your tuts !

Please Reply !!!

I do have to comment that I don’t think that the pagination class in CI is written very well. Overall I think URIs are somewhat hard to deal with and I find it easier to work with name/value pairs. Luckily CI has a built in uri_to_assoc method disassembles your URI and turns it into an associative array.

In a project I am currently working on I have a method called off of my page’s constructor that checks the URI for and parameters, it then turns the URI into an array which I use all over the page to hold my parameters.

When I’m setting up the config array for my pagination class, I set the base_url to my normal base url but I add on “/offset/. When my page loads the constructor disassembles the URI finds offset in the parameter array and then gets the offset value that the pagination class assigns inside the class itself. I then set the offset value as “cur_page” in my pagination config array that I pass in when initializing the pagination class.

With a little more configuration this would allow you to pass in extra parameters into the pagination class so you could create URIs that have multiple parameters.

Sorry if I rambled just thought I would share my thoughts and work.

Jeff,

I have a few requests for tutorials and please don’t worry about how long they are…take your time. I’m typing as your speaking and you are flying through them

- Advanced Security (more of the MD5/HTTPS stuff)
- Logout
- Go more in-depth over the Update from CRUD
- Securing a URL (making a URL only viewable from one address)
- Setting user privileges and access level

Honestly I’d be happy if you simply did videos for every aspect of the user guide, but that may be overkill. I’m just a visual learner so seeing how you write code and explain code helps when I view the docs because I know more of what I’m looking at.

Thanks,
Seth

Hey Jeff!

First off, you have no idea how epic it is that you decided to do these screencasts. I’m putting together a website/ecommerce system at work and honestly would not be able to do it without these videos. Thank you.

Second, I’m having this weird issue. When I load my main view in my index.php controller (which I use instead of ’site’ or ‘main’), I call the views in the constructor. When I load the page in-browser, it displays each view twice (as in header, content, footer, header, content, footer). When I make a separate function outside the constructor to load the views, the issue disappears. I’d prefer to use the constructor, but I can’t figure out why this is happening! Argh!

Hi Jeff!

Do you know when you’ll be able to share the next video?

Thanks!

Hey Jeff,

Please post something related to creating Chat application in php. Just general idea will be fine

Great stuff… thanks. Sounds like you had your coffee before doing this one

Jeff,

PLEASE DON’T LET THIS SERIES DIE!!!! It was too good to stop now. Seriously. These videos were awesome! Keep it up! Please!!!

Hello Jef,

Once again, I’d like to thank your for your vcasts. They are very well structured. Congratulations.

I’ve requested this pagination tutorial as well, since I realise that this was a commom request that almost all will need on almost every project.

In order to continue on the same “must know features”, I’d love if you could teach us, how can we create a dynamic menu category navigation.

The big thing here, is the all picture to relate a model, a controller (or several), several views, and we then need to show, hide, menu items based on the URI.

It would be great if we could have a 100 foot view of a process involving a category menu creation.

Regards,

Great Tutorial. Is there day 8 tutorial?

Hi Jeff,

First, you’re a great teacher, thanks for all your hard work.

OK, now to my request… Is it possible to create a client drop box with individual user names and passwords, along with max size caps per user, using CI?

I think this would be a really cool tutorial to do, especially since most developers watching the tuts could really use something like that for their freelance work – yeah, me too.

Thanks!

Couldn’t get mine to work. The table of records is generated fine and the URL parameter works, but the pagination links are not created.

I can’t find anything wrong in any of these lines:
$this->load->library(’pagination’);
$this->pagination->initialize($config);
$this->pagination->create_links();

What’s more I’m not getting any PHP errors or warnings. But in the page source there is just blank space where the links should be.

Any suggestions?

Hey Jeff,

Great Video Tutorials, voted for you on .NET Awards.

Would you be able to show us how you can enforce Search Engine Friendly URLs? It always appears to be “/index.php/site/something” which is not always the ideal way of doing. Is the “index.php” part needed or can it just be “/site/something”?

Would you also be able to expand on the scaffolding technique that CodeIgniter has to offer?

Cheers again.

Hi Jeff,

I see that you seem to be a big fan of CI. I am coming from Ruby on Rails and was looing for an easy jump off into the world of php frameworks. CI caught my attention and I have watched all your CI tuts. Recently though, I have seen whats seems to be a cousin of CI called Kohana. Can you please tell me your thoughts and why you have stuck wtih CI.

Thanks

these tutorials are great!keep up the good work Jeff!!

The tutorials are wonderful and so helpful to all of us new to Codeigniter. I was wondering if you could go over creating calendars with Codeigniter. I am trying to figure out how to create advance event calendars (where I could switch between month, week, and day view and also view all upcoming events in the next few monthes) for a website of mine. It would be so great if you did. Two other topics that might be nice to have you go over would be creating thumbnails on the fly with Codeigniter or best practice with creating thumbnails and adding a WYSIWYG editor (with ability to add and remove files and images) to a Codigniter admin site. Keep up the good work!

This is probably my favorite tut series ever. Thanks Jeffrey for getting me started with CodeIgniter.

Can you do a tutorial on storing images/files in MySQL with CodeIgniter or even with general PHP?

Hey Jefrey, nice tutorial, i watch all your screencast, and i think i’m not the first to ask you, what’s your textmate theme, i’m a windows user, but i work with e text editor, a port of textmate, but for windows/*nix, and i can use almost everything of textmate, so, hope you can tell me

Sorry for my poor english

How i know if my comment was received? are the comments moderated?

how can I paginate if I have a data source is csv file ?

appreciate your help

Thanks for the nice series! It’s total awesome!
I got 1 question. How do you do so that it won’t show the id ? I tryed with:
$this->db->select(’title’, ‘content’);
but that doesen’t work?

Sorry to use this as a way for posting none related questions. Unfortunately the CI support on the web is poor.
I’m having some problems with the callback function so if you guys could check this post out:
http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/106717/P15/#656592
Thks a lot!

Is this…. dead?

Jeff,

I really enjoy the tuts. I’ve come late to these tuts and was trying to catch up.

Unfortunately, Days 5 thru 7 videos don’t work. And Screencast says, “We’re sorry! We were unable to locate the requested page.”, when trying to download.

Is this a permanent condition? This has been an issue for several days, now.

When’s the next one coming? these have been really useful…

pleaase don’t stop now!!

Count me in with Bart and Ben. I am loving the tutorials so far, but no luck getting 5-7 to work.

Any alternate links?

Thanks!

Thank you very much for this tutorials..

I have downloaded the first 6 ones… now i want todownload this one and i cant… there are some laternative url to download because it is not working right now…

Thanks

What about debugging when developing with CodeIgniter? I find a lot of troubles trying to debug, because of the routed urls.

is this dead, Jeffrey?

Please, don’t stop this series. It’s great

I miss CodeIgniter’s tutorials… =(

Thanks Jeff for this awesome series… I have a question what if i don’t want to include the “site/index/20″ and just want “site/20″ in the URL is this possible ?
If yes please tell me how can i do it ?
Also i am having problem removing the default index.php from WAMP i tried copying the .htaccess file with the following content to the folder outside system i.e. the root folder of the project:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

And also changed the $config['index_page'] = “”;

But still its not working !?!

Please can you help me with both these issues ?

Hello JW,
I seems that this series is discontinued or have any season break… . Please continue this series to next level as you have said in the 1st epi.
I was finally get used to CI and then sudden break!!.

I guess these guys are more interested in being like Smashing Magazine and while I like that site I was hoping this would actually stay a tutorial site rather than advertising and opinions. These good tutorials keep getting passed up for ads disguised as opinions. I understand they have to make money and have paid for nettuts+ membership to support them in the hopes to find the continuation of this tutorial. I guess I feel like they are not focused. I’ve been waiting for more to this series. Sigh….I guess it’s not profitable for them to continue to do this tutorial.

Just joined for Plus program and wondering why there isn’t much CI tutorials for Plus users

I think JW is out of ideas what to do next for this screen cast series.
It was totally unplanned series, i think that why they have taken the break or stopped it.
My idea is now they had covered enough basic of CI. Now its time to start building actual site which was said in the 1st epi.

JW, please surprise us next week!!

That makes no sense.
Lots of people had talked about a screencast on jQuery integration with CodeIgniter.
So, lack of ideas is not the problem.
Is it a time problem?

Either way, I think Jeff should say something to all of us waiting.
He doesn’t have to. He just should…

=)

Hi Jeff,

I found a weird problem with CI. I have created a sub-folder in the controller say “abc” and a “class xyz” inside the file “xyz.php”. Now the structure is:

http://localhost/site/index.php/abc/xyz/index

Inside that class i am not able to see the echo $this->pagination->create_links(); function working, as it is being echoed out but the link system is not working !?! (i.e. when i click on the links of the pagination the URL changes but the anchors link don’t change; likewise Next link also doesn’t works).

Do you have any solution for this ????
Please help!