I also have to agree with you on that one Brian.
That is one of the problems, no one sit's down and reads the User Guide.
I remember back in 2008 when I first started using CodeIgniter,
I sat down for the whole weekend and just read the Users Guide.
What did you Try? What did you Get? What did you Expect?
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