Useful websites and resources for learning CodeIgniter Comments (0)
by Wez Pyke - December 5, 2009 in PHP

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
10 CakePHP Tutorials You Should Read Comments (1)
by Wez Pyke - July 15, 2009 in General,PHP

cake logo 10 CakePHP Tutorials You Should ReadThere 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