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I've used PHP a number of years but in an effort to learn better practices/cut down development times I've gone down the route of using a framework.
I started off looking at Laravel, then Agile Toolkit, and now settled on CodeIgniter. I'm working my way through the documentation but I'd appreciate some advice on my first project from the more experienced members here..
All I am doing is making a very simple directory. The front page will be a search box with a list. User enters a search term and it automatically filters the list. This list will be populated by data from a SERVICE table.
Finding a match, user clicks on the list item, it goes to another page with a list of companies found which match the service selected. So here's data pulled in from a COMPANY table.
Now I also need a login area for my admin so they can add companies and services. Therefore I need a USER table.
Now I could just go ahead and start coding this from scratch as it's very simple but I wanted to use CI because:
- I wanted something to handle db connections, user auth in a clean way.
- I want simple CRUD functions built in.
- I want to learn how to use a framework and testing on this simple app will be great for future.
So what I'm looking for is advice on how you would go about creating this using CI.
Bear in mind I am a baby when it comes to MVC. So I was thinking that my first step is really going to be to design the whole thing and then to code it.
Should I then code my models and actions (which I'm guessing are COMPANY, SERVICE, USER and add company/edit company/delete company etc...?)
And then ....?
As you can see I'm stuck and would appreciate some pointers from those of you who do this day in/day out!
