So in part 1 of Codeigniter user login, we setup a users table in our database and learned about adding users. This week we will learn about validating the users logins and adding a custom MY_Controller file to do the authorization on a per page basis.
I decided a couple of weeks ago to start putting the new things I’ve learnt over the past six months into my codeigniter template on github. This is mainly for my own use when starting each new project to be able to clone, but it’s in a public repository and it might be useful for others to take it as a starting point as well.
In this article I'm going to be giving an insight into using codeigniter (CI) for php. Over the last 6-8months I have been spending a lot of time working with codeigniter to develop rich web applications and find it an extremely useful framework to build upon.
I have spent some time putting together my base codeigniter install. This contains common features / functions that I use when starting most apps.
If this is useful, I have made the files available on github for anyone to download.
Last week I posted up my base codeigniter template to github and wrote a quick article on it in the journal here. I have drafted up a very basic MY_Model class and added it into the CI_Template. This won't provide accessor methods or anything fancy, but just a few simple reusable methods for getting and inserting records that you will likely use accross different models dealing with databases.