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Ryan, are you talking about plain Codeigniter or Grocery CRUD? They are two different things. Most of us can help you with Codeigniter questions, but Grocery CRUD questions, well, they require someone who uses and knows Grocery CRUD.

Hey, don't work without a PHP debugger. Several free IDEs have this features built in. Two are NetBeans and CodeLobster. Without a debugger, it's like you're driving with a blindfold on -- you are going to crash!