im so lost after install

[eluser]jdfwarrior[/eluser]
[quote author="n0xie" date="1252934892"][quote author="christoh" date="1252932571"]i was told that ci was a great learning tool?

but all i got was you guys flaming me

shit i have to do programming for school next year, so i thought ci would be great.

fuck you all[/quote]
Hi and welcome to the forum. CI is indeed a good learning tool to make you use good design patterns without needing to know the theory behind them. Hence it will teach you a better way of setting up your project without falling into the many pitfalls beginning PHP programmers step into. So if you want to learn programming PHP, this is a very good starting point.

If you could explain in more detail what exactly is your problem, I'm sure someone can help you along. For now I would suggest following the blog tutorial or one of the many other tutorials available.[/quote]

^ One appropriate response. It was a bad time to ask though (middle of the night for me as well).

If your looking to learn PHP search some of the tutorial sites like nettuts.com and you will find plenty of resources (articles, best practices, tutorials, etc) for getting started with PHP. There is also a 15 screencast set named "Diving into PHP" at http://blog.themeforest.net. If you already have the basic understand of PHP, then the next step would be getting a grasp on MVC (the architecture used by CodeIgniter). From CodeIgniter's Video section there are several tutorials to help you get started, there are several "CodeIgniter From Scatch" tutorials on nettuts.com, there are also some tutorials on codeigniterdirectory.com.

Hope this helps out some. If not feel free to shoot me a PM I can prob dig up a nice list of stuff for you to look through in my bookmarks. Don't give up so quickly next time. CI is a great tool, you'd be amazed to see how much time and work it can save you over using pure php.