[Suggestion] Split the dev questions forums in two: Basic / Advanced

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
I see no reason for this, for a resounding number of reasons:

1) We were all newbies like that. I remember when I first started using CI a year ago, I simply couldn't understand and comprehend how the data was passed via an array to the view and how to effectively retrieve that data. After a quick jump over to RoR (where the MVC concept is much clearer) and back again - well, look at me now.

2) Newbies will still post their questions in the Advanced section. It increases the chances of the question being answered (by "Advanced" programmers, oh my!). Also, what defined advanced? Most people around here thing user authentication is a hard topic, worthy of a massive library. I happen to think it's easy as hell and it only took me about 30 minutes to write the first version of ErkanaAuth.

3) It adds another click. A lot of people, myself included, read damn near every topic on this forum. You're adding another section I have to click off into.

4) You don't have to read those topics. If it's from a name you don't recognize or the subject line reads ("anchor() function doesn't work") - you know they probably didn't change their config.php. Just skip it if you don't feel like answering. Which leads me to:

5) You don't have to answer. Even if you did read the topic, you are by no means bound to a contract which means you have to answer.


CodeIgniter needs newbies. We're a relatively young framework that catches a bad wrap from the rest of the frameworks (because we don't do AJAX, User Auth, and other stuff the developer should do himself and not be limited by the constraints of a framework).