Here is a recap of the posts from this week.

Build a Twitter-like site with CodeIgniter and jQuery Part 2

5 PHP Frameworks you may not know about

Creating a basic iPad application

There are many PHP frameworks available for developers to choose from when creating a project. Frameworks such as CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend are the most popular frameworks used by developers.

In this article I will compile a list of 5 frameworks that many developers may not know of.
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Don't forget to check out part 1 if you have no read it.

In the second part of this 5 part tutorial series on how to build a Twitter-like website, we will be creating a signup form so that users can register to our website.

We will be adding records to the database that we created in part 1 and creating validation rules to make sure that the user didn't put any invalid data into the form.
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Here is a list of posts from this week if you may have missed anything.

20 Stunning Wallpapers For Your Desktop

10 Awesome jQuery Tutorials You Should Check Out

10 Flash and Actionscript Tutorials for the Beginner

Cheat sheets: jQuery, MooTools, Prototype

Deep Linking with jQuery

Build a Twitter-like site with CodeIgniter and jQuery

This tutorial will be the first of a five part series where we will built a social network site similar to Twitter from scratch. We will be using the CodeIgniter framework for the core of the website and jQuery for the effects. In this first part we will be configuring CodeIgniter to display everything correctly and we will also set up a database and connect to it.

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If you use Twitter you'll notice that there is a more button at the bottom at the bottom of your timeline, when you click this more tweets appear. This is Twitters way of paginating a page. In this tutorial I'll show you how to create a pagination system using CodeIgniter and jQuery that is almost identical to Twitters.

First of all copy this SQL into your database to create a table that we will be using to grab rows from.

CREATE TABLE  `tutorials`.`twitter_messages` (
`id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
`username` VARCHAR( 30 ) NOT NULL ,
`message` VARCHAR( 140 ) NOT NULL
) ENGINE = INNODB

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Blip.tv Page

Link to helper

Twitter

The class that we are going to create within CI will simply add a math question that the user will have to enter correctly to continue. This is useful to stop bots from mass submitting information to your forms.

The class we are going to write is only very short and simple, but it will give you an idea of how to create classes for your own projects.

Creating the new class

First of all we need to create the file for the class, navigate to libraries then create a file called math_question.php.

All we are going to do within this class is generate two random numbers that will be added together.
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Frameworks are becoming more and more popular because of the useful pre-built functions and organization of how files are meant to be stored and used.

Here is a shortlist of 10 resources that should be useful for beginners looking to learn CodeIgniter.

1. CodeIgniter From Scratch
2. From CodeIgniter to Ruby on Rails: A Conversion
3. Smarty as a template engine in Code Igniter
4. CodeIgniter Sample Auto-Complete Application
5. Everything You Need to Get Started With CodeIgniter
6. A Quick Code Igniter and JQuery Ajax Tutorial
7. Speed Up your Web Application by CodeIgniter
8. How to use CodeIgniter’s OpenID library to integrate OpenID in your existing user system.
9. Pagination with Code Igniter
10. CodeIgniter User Guide

There are a number of frameworks available for PHP such as CodeIgnitor, Zend, Symfony, Kohana and many more. In this article you will find tutorials that I have found on the web that will help PHP programmers that are new to the MVC pattern or CakePHP.

CakePHP is an amazing framework if you know how to use it, but the documentation for CakePHP is quite badly written and can cause confusion for new users. Here are a few links to try and make life easier for new and experienced CakePHP users.

1. Validation with CakePHP
2. Theming with CakePHP
3. Getting started quickly with Scriptaculous effects
4. Drag 'n drop tutorial with the CakePHP 1.2 Ajax helper, Prototype framework and Scriptaculous library
5. Secure CakePHP via Sessions & Magic (Login / Logout)
6. CakePHP ACL Tutorial
7. CakePHP Bake - Baking Models, Controllers and Views the CakePHP 1.2 Way
8. Cascading Dynamic Meta Tags and Page Titles in CakePHP 1.2
9. jQuery image upload & crop
10. Uploader - Plugin