Code Igniter & Fast Development

[eluser]jdfwarrior[/eluser]
I personally speed up development a lot by using the Auto Completions available in PHPDesigner (IDE of preference). Doing this, I have auto completions(basically same idea as using snippets) to auto insert/complete code based off a key term.

For instance, I type: 'controller' then hit Control+J (auto complete hotkey) and I get

Code:

<?php if ( !defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access');

/**
*
* <name> Controller
*
* <description of functionality>
*
* Uses: <other scripts and such it uses>
* Author: David Ferguson
* Date: <date>
*
**/

class | extends Controller {

     function index() {

     }

}

It auto positions the cursor where the | symbol is. I have auto completions (complete with commenting and all) for controllers, models, creating the index function, the remap function, creating a blank function, loading libraries, models, and helpers, and so on.

It cuts time out of a lot of the stuff that you repeat a lot. That's just my way..