Pretty Good Practices/Productivity

Pretty Good PracticesHow I use CodeIgniter to increase productivity

Who Am I?• Adam Jackett• @darkhouseca• Proudly Self/Community Taught

Pretty Good Practices• HMVC• Base Controllers• Migrations• CRUD Models• Form Models• ORM Models

HMVC• Modular Extensions by wiredesignz• https://bitbucket.org/wiredesignz/ codeigniter-modular-extensions-hmvc

HMVCSimple blog module structure

HMVCRoutes for admin panels

HMVCLoad a model from another module

HMVCRun a controller method from another moduleOr load a controller into a variable

Base ControllersTypical application/core setup

Base ControllersAdd this to the end of your conﬁg.php

Base ControllersMY_Controller.php

Base ControllersAdmin_Controller.php

Migrations• Easily upgrade or downgrade• Database agnostic• Version control

MigrationsCreate a users table

MigrationsCreate a roles table

MigrationsCreate a role users pivot table

MigrationsAdd constraints

MigrationsDown method

MigrationsAutomatic Migrations in Base Controller

CRUD Models• Jamie Rumbelow’s Base Model• https://github.com/jamierumbelow/ codeigniter-base-model

CRUD Models• get($id)• get_by($ﬁeld, $value) //or array• get_many_by($ﬁeld, $value) //or array• get_all()

CRUD Models• get($ﬁeld, $value) //or id, or array• get_all($ﬁeld, $value) //or array

CRUD ModelsObservers

CRUD ModelsFilters

Form Models• Form validation in a model just for that form• Store options for select boxes, radio buttons, etc.

Form Modelscore/Form_Model.php

Form Modelsuser_form_model.php

Form ModelsPassword reset

Form ModelsMultiple step forms

ORM Models• Doctrine• Datamapper• PHPActiveRecord• RedBean• NotORM• Eloquent

Thank You!

by ciconf on Aug 16, 2012