I promised myself I won’t do anymore tutorials regarding CodeIgniter until a new version is about to appear, but I can’t help myself. And this subject seems more than appropriate for a new tutorial.

Let us start with the beginning. In routes.php (application/config/routes.php), we have a configuration parameter called “translate_uri_dashes“. If we set this parameter to TRUE, the CodeIgniter framework will translate the dashes (“-“) in our urls into underscores (“_”) when calling a controller or a method. This, of course is what we want in order to have “SEO friendly” URLs (although I think it’s strange that up until this moment, search engines can’t interpret an url). Continue reading →

Well… Even though I get a lot of thanks for what I’ve wrote so far (and even some correction on some faulty code… I’m only human…), there are still people who don’t know how to handle an edit method. So I thought “why not get back to the basics?”. Continue reading →

Hmm… I don’t know about you but the two tutorials before this one in the series about migration really scared me with the naming, the controllers, the format of the migration, etc. So why not speed things up? We can do this by using Matches, a CodeIgniter CLI script that helps me speed things up when talking about development in CodeIgniter. I sure hope you didn’t just realize that this is also about promoting my script (which, by the way, it’s open source…). Continue reading →

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Well… you got here. So I will be assuming that you’ve already followed the first episode of this tutorial (http://avenir.ro/the-migrations-in-codeigniter-or-how-to-have-a-git-for-your-database/) and all went well up until the end. If something went wrong now is the time to tell me (in a comment to to previous tutorial, please).

Now we will go a bit deeper… So… By referring to what we did in the previous tutorial (a table named “users” that has “id”, “username”, “email”, and “password” as fields), we will try to see how we can alter the table the way we want to. Continue reading →

Well… it’s a huge subject, and I don’t know if I’m the person to ask to regarding this subject, but a reader asked me to approach it. Let’s start with mentioning the features that CodeIgniter offer in this regard. Looking at the manual, we can clearly see that it covers a lot of subjects, including session handling, encryption, security, input, and form validation. Continue reading →