[eluser]bAum[/eluser]
Hi all,

I am new to CI, and I was wondering what the general approach is to implement models that represent database records in CI.

In my understanding, CI models as they are presented in the user guide, for instance, are not a representation of some database record, but rather of a whole concept (the user guide contains the example of a "blog", not of a "blog post"). And there is the fact that CI's default behavior when loading a model is to create a single instance of that model having the model's name. This also suggests that the intent is to create a model once, like some data-oriented library.

I prefer, however, the orm/activerecord approach, where a model instance represents some record of my database, which means that I'll generally deal with several instances of the same model. Yet, as far as I understand, all loaded models are part of the CI namespace, and if I load a model twice with the same name (just imagine a loop over blogposts, for each one I would load a blogpost model which I call temp), I'll get an error that I'm using a name that already exists.

This naming conflict was just an example, I'm sure that this is not the only issue I'll have to deal with. So what would people here suggest me? How would you implement this stuff in CI (well, I could create model classes not "linked" to CI, but this would somehow undermine CI)?

Many thanks.

[eluser]mipa[/eluser]
I have a bizarre issue with the following behavior:

Adding parameters to a URI causes the application to load twice, the second time butchering all URI segments after the third one.

The pages use the OB Session library.

Have I funked up some configuration settings somewhere? Or is there some other reason for this behavior? Any insight would be appreciated!

[eluser]Vik[/eluser]
I've just started working with CI, I have a newbie question.

I have a controller that contains this code:

[eluser]batteries[/eluser]
I don't mind passing variables around in a "procedural" fasion.. But, when dealing with a complex execution, i will use a more oop approach and set my data into the relevant model as private variables.

So my question, how do you guys do it? is there a best practice? For my current project i want to deal with my data exclusively in the oop way but i'm not sure if i should validate before i set the data to variables, or to set the data as soon as i get it..

Thanks

[eluser]webdude[/eluser]
My form input names are generated using a product code held in my database. As I don’t know their names until the page loads how do I get their values once the page has been submitted.

[eluser]eedfwChris[/eluser]
Basically I have something like...

/view/2

where 2 is the id of some article.

What is the best way to prevent people from typing say... "e" in there and generating a SQL error?

[eluser]mazaka[/eluser]
Hi all, I just started using CI, and it looks very promising!

I searched the forum for good ways of reusing and including code in views, but havent found exactly what I am looking for.

I simply want to include pageheaders, footers, simple nav bars and CSS info (yeah I have to have it inline, I cant link it to external css files for this proj. Its for phones. Phones dont like that.)


Until I find a better way, I do this in a VIEW file:

[eluser]opel[/eluser]
Hi I'm new to Code Ignite and still working through 1st few tutorials. I plan to make a small CMS system and want to check my plan for setting up my CI structure is correct.

Usually when I create dynamic sites I have an admin directory that is secured by user login system. The database structure is then fed out to the public pages as usual.

Using CI's MVC would I create an "admin" controller with admin views for adding news, adding links etc. Then controllers/views for the public sections ?

[eluser]Freakish_05[/eluser]
Evening all,

Further to my thread about multiple smarty views with CI, I've ditched smarty is it seemed to make things far more complicated than using CI's views.

I how have a new problem....
My sidebars and navbars are very often run from databases and frequently use URL variables to return data.

What is the best method of doing this in CI? The php code obviously needs to run before CI outputs the final view.
If I understand the MVC approach correctly, I should be creating plugins for all of my sidebar elements and then wrapping them all up in an addtional plugin function which is called in each of my controllers.

All comments greatly appreciated,
Freakish_05

[eluser]Carlton[/eluser]
Hi People,

I have been looking through the code igniter documentation for about 2 weeks now and started writing some code but having difficulty grasping how it is you should create a reusable structure for a web page.

Previously I would have created nav bars, side navs in seperate php files and used the include function to place them in certain places of a template. If I were to do something similar in Code Igniter would I need to use multiple views...e.g....