Learning CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is one of the favored framework these days. From what I've seen thus far from different tutorials, the main reason is , CodeIgniter is so easy to use and you can start creating your web application within the hour.

In this series of notes, I'll be listing down the steps I take as I develop my own site using CodeIgniter.  I would like to think that the series of articles that I will post here are not just  tutorials but rather my own notes as I learn to use CodeIgniter and develop my own site. From these notes though, I hope you could also learn.

I'm using my laptop with the following:


  •  Linux Mint Katya (V 11) with 
  • Apache, MySql and PHP 5.3.5 installed. 
  • Netbeans for my editor.
If you have a Windows environment, Google for WAMP and install it on your system or any appropriate AMP (Apache-MysQL-PHP) packages for your OS.

Needless to say, CodeIgniter  is a cross-platform framework.





What I have done so far:

  1. Downloaded CodeIgniter Version 2.10
  2. Extracted the CI files to my web server root folder (e.g  mylaptop  ~ $ www/html)
    For installation instructions Check this page: Installing CodeIgniter
  3. To check if CodeIgniter is installed correctly, open the browser and homepage should now look like this:


For my Cybernated Horizon website, I placed the CodeIgniter folder under  var/www/cybernatedhorizon; where var/www is the root folder for my web.  Thus I did not change any directory structure of CodeIgniter for now.


Next some notes before creating my first CodeIgniter driven page.

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