Base CodeIgniter App

A starting point CodeIgniter App filled with useful goodies.

Setup

1. Clone or download
2. Set the following directories to writable:
   1. application/cache
   2. application/logs
   3. application/db_cache
   4. public/assets/cache

That's it! No submodules because they are a pain.

Usage

• MY_Controller does a ton of cool stuff:
  • autoload views by saving them as controller_name/method_name.php or define a custom view as $this->view = 'my_view' or skip the view with $this->view = false;
  • views are loaded into layouts (templates) stored in views/layouts. The default layout is application.php. You can change it inside a controller method with $layout = 'layout_name'. or skip the layout with $layout = false;
  • autoload models by saving them as controller_name_model.php. It gets loaded as $this->controller_name.
  • filters are functions run before and after controller output. Set them via public $before_filters = array('method_1', 'method_2');. They take the same params that your controller method does. The point is that you can run them for all but certain methods, only certain methods, or a mix between. Great for authentication!
  • auto migrate to latest version. To enable, uncomment $this->_migrate(); in application/core/MY_Controller.php
• MY_Model lets you greatly reduce necessary model methods, allow validation in the model, enable observers. Check out the source for details, there's too much to explain here.
• Presenters to clean up views dramatically
• REST_Controller to authenticate, format, and present errors properly
• Pigeon and API_Router for RESTful routing
• Updated MY_Migration. You can set the migration table in application/config/migration.php
• MY_Form_validation for a prefix and suffix for each form error. Set it in application/config/form_validation.php
• All public stuff such as index.php and assets goes in /public/
• Add a Composer package by editing /composer.json, then run php composer.phar install on the command line from the root directory.

But wait, there's more!

• Jamie Rumbelow's REST_Controller to output in various formats, throttle, authenticate, return API manifest, add debug info, etc. Extend it, set $this->data, and you're done! You can also set $this->status_code to a 3-digit number and $this->respond(); to just send a status back
• caching fragments available via the fragment library, repeating partial views via the partial helper
• Using MY_Log to fix chmod issues
• Includes Sparks with the following sparks:
  • assets - for easy combining, minifying, and caching of js/css and parsing LESS and CoffeeScript
  • curl - makes curl codeignitery
  • events - event-driven development
  • query string helper - makes working with query-string heavy apps much easier
  • REST client - to interact with RESTful APIs
• Includes Kenji's CIUnit for unit testing of models, controllers, helpers, libraries. Unit test examples are in tests/folder_name. There is a working controller test in tests/controllers/welcome_Test.php
• Twitter Bootstrap for easy, responsive, beautiful, customizable, cross-browser UI goodness.
• API exception handler and manifest library to return formatted API help (both in application/libraries/api)
• .htaccess from HTML5 Boilerplate with CodeIgniter stuff to remove index.php
• main config and database config are separated into folders for four typical development environments. I usually add environment setting logic based on the HTTP_HOST in index.php.
• Includes FirePHP

Change Log

2.0.1

• Added FirePHP library
• Added example for Selenium functional test thanks to Phil Palmieri's examples
• Added examples for model, helper, and library tests
• Updated Twitter Bootstrap to 2.2.0
• Show profiler by default if in development environment and it's not an ajax request
• Added autoload sparks line
• Better gitignore

2.0.0

• Added most things above. No need to repeat the entire README again :) .

1.1.2

• Updated submodules

1.1.1

• Updated Twitter Bootstrap to 2.0.2
• Removed copyright statements from docblocks
• Updated all relevant docblocks to @version 1.1.2

1.1.0

• Support for travis-ci
• Updated db config