CodeIgniter Beginners Series - Starting up

CodeIgniter Beginner Series - Starting up

If you've been developing web application in PHP for a while now and have a good working knowledge of OOP this may be the right time to pick up a framework that makes you life easier. If your goal is to learn then forget about framework and keep focusing on developing stuff from scratch but if you're past that point where you feel tired rewriting code and just want to be super productive and make money then you got to use a framework. Learning curve is everywhere so don't expect it to like writing your 'Hello world!".

This is a Codeigniter tutorial series and in this series I'll from beginner to intermediate tutorials covering almost everything that you need to know. Things that are not so important, I won't even touch. If you're past intermediate projects and feel the need to learn it advanced concepts, you're free to as you'll have solid foundation to understand any new concept or pick any new framework.

Before we proceed it's important that you understand what MVC is because Codeigniter is based on it. You can read about MVC here http://www.webdevtown.com/2016/02/mvc-model-view-controller-seriously.html. Today's task is nothing more than reading and understanding MVC, I won't teach you anything, we won't do any code. It's all MVC, search and read till you understand. Once MVC concept is somewhat clear then come back here tomorrow. I'll be teaching some basic stuff like CodeIgniter installation, loading pages and understand what routes are and how they work.

See you tomorrow! We'll ignite some code!