As promised, here’s the second in my series of screencasts to develop a basic CMS…
You can get all the links from my blog post.

Hopefully I’ve sorted out:
Audio syncing,
Audio Volume

Next time I’ll plug my laptop in before I get started :D

sorry this has taken so long to get ready.

Please provide any feedback you can.

The next one will be a bit more ‘meaty’. (User logins, and now a new ‘modular’ directory structure)
There is a little skipping on this audio, but overall, I think it’s much better than the first.

A few times I come across errors and have to do a little debug… but I’d rather do that than have ‘perfect’ development.
At least this way you get to see some ‘real’ development.

so…. go get the screencast!

Elliot

Elliot, you’re a natural with teaching. Keep up the great work! Thanks for your continued contributions.

good job on this
i’m starting to like the idea for using db driven pages

i got some questions about the nav
if u want to add sub links
how would u do it?

something like this maybe?

and i get confused too if we have a user system
how we can set the links to show to only certain groups

i’m not used to do navs from db has u can see

Well, I will be introducing sub-pages in time…
it works off a parent_id int field in the pages db.

Basically…

I’d do something like this:

That will give you 2 arrays: top_nav and sub_nav… each indexed by the parent’s id…

Then the view will be something like this:

Although it’s far from polished, you can see the basic idea.

Hope this helps (until I bring this out in a screencast)

Elliot

Good one. I especially love the part where you run for your charger! :D

Some critique, though:
—> Try to use less “negating” statements. For example you could rewrite the in_array thing in your routes with

—> I think it’s good to show your mistakes while coding, but you should think about some things BEFORE screencasting such as the substring function you’re using ... You want to take off the extension of a file - then the command is not substr($file, 0, strlen($file)-4) (imagine .phtml - I know this is not valid in CI, but anyway) but rather something like

Or maybe strpos()-1, I’m too lazy to try. It looks for the first appearance of “.”.
—> Try to keep your coding style consistent, especially regarding indentation, blank lines, etc. ...
—> If you try to educate people, be a good teacher and make them good programmers: If your page->get() method returns an array in case of success it should return an empty array in case of error (stay with your datatype!). And don’t use constructs like if(isset($blah) && !empty($blah)) ... empty return false if something is not set (!isset). Lastly, try to avoid result_array() and use the object method (result()) as often as possible - after all, we’re OOP, right?

But, as the others say, it’s different from other screencasts, which makes it automatically more interesting to watch!
Cheers

Hi Clemens…
Thanks for the feedback.

Try to use less “negating” statements. For example you could rewrite the in_array thing in your routes with

I tend to write things as they make sense… for example:
in the real world, you would say:
“if you don’t have any milk, buy some from the shop”,
not
“if you have milk, don’t buy some from the shop”

which is why i would write the first of the following statements:

I tend to write things in a way that makes more sense if it were real english, I guess everyone’s just different.

Thanks for the rest of the feedback, I’ll look into it, (particularly the result_array…
Overall, I’m pretty young and still refining my skills.
This screancasting is as much a learning experience for me as it is a teaching one.

Elliot

Thanks Elliot. Love your screencasts. I find it interesting just to see someone else’s CI coding practices.

Here’s another tip Elliot.

—> controllers/pages.php (around line 25):

Can be optimized to:

If uri->segment(1) would return FALSE, the function will now return the second argument you provided to it. Just another small detail that helps keeping your code neat.

Concerning result_array(), I’m wondering what’s wrong using that function instead of just result()? Personally I do prefer to work with query results as arrays. Seems like a more flexible solution. If you could provide some clear advantages of working with the OOP results, Clemens, please do so.

Been there, know that! That’s why I give you feedback. I started teaching Java and PHP when I started studying at my Uni (at 18) and I have been teaching for the past 2 years.
Cheers

Thanks for this optimization:

I completely forgot about that!!

Elliot

Thanks for this part Elliot!
I have a problem, and i can’t solve it yet.
I have followed Your instructions, and when You have added the admin folder, and pages.php in it and finalized, my page was not found.
I copied the routes.php from Your uploaded version, but no success.
Maybe my Apache’s settings are wrong? I tried any option in CI, URI Protocol, but nothing.
Any idea? I missed something?
Thanks for Your time.

in the files that are for download there is a bug
its missing the word index in line 93 at routes

change it for this -> $route[’(.*)’] = “pages/index/$1”;

elliot forgot to change it when he was trying to put scaffolding working.
if u do this, the download files work just fine

I did it Wemago, but no success. 

I have found a solution: (Suggested in Recursive Routing topic.)

in routes.php I have changed:

into: