Comments on: Building a Complete CodeIgniter Application: Part 2

By: mike varela

mike varela — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:15:55 +0000

great post… problem though, half the code runs off the page into a zone that can’t be read… so I can’t follow along.

By: Slagar

Slagar — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:30 +0000

Great tutorial!!
I’m fairly new to MVC and CI, and had looked at some tutorials, but few of them gave very good instruction on MVC and how to go about things, especially where models are concerned. The information on your site is invaluable. Thank you so much!

By: Jim O'Halloran

Jim O'Halloran — Sun, 10 May 2009 08:08:03 +0000

Hi Pizdin,

The reaon the case of the filename is important is that Linux (which I use for development anrd production) is case sensitive when it comes to file names, Codeigniter will attempt to include feedmodel.php, not FeedModel.php.

Jim.

By: Pizdin Dim

Pizdin Dim — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:45:07 +0000

Some valuable information here, thanks. However, there is something which I find puzzling and I’m hoping you may know.

Why does CI use capitalized class names when almost everything else is all lowercase? PHP itself is NOT case-sensitive for class names, we know that. So why bother? For instance, you said:

models live in the system/application/models directory. Their file name needs to be the same as the lowercase name of the class, and end in .php. To to create FeedModel, create a file called feedmodel.php in system/application/models

See the strangeness? The class is called “FeedModel” but the file is called “feedmodel” instead. Where is the practical benefit in all this? Why not just stick to lowercase?

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By: Joshua W.

Joshua W. — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:05:27 +0000

Just a heads-up on an issue I had that took a few minutes to sort out….

When you created the Feed controller towards the beginning of this article, you used a function named view() to initialize simplepie and to point to the correct View file. The function name view() is a reserved name if you are running CodeIgniter on PHP 4.

I kept getting 404 errors until I changed the name of that function.

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:15:48 +0000

Great stuff! A link to part 3 at the bottom would be cool or even a ‘next ‘ link.

By: Maver

Maver — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:46:43 +0000

Can you send me the file? I couldn’t find the link… “click here”

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By: Stefan

Stefan — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:55:59 +0000

@ Thomas

Regarding the problem with SimplePie: it’s a bug in the current official version. Just use the latest “trunk” provided on teh SimplePie site and it will go away.