The next chapter was published today: creating a simple blog engine. In it we cover using View Layouts to make it easy to maintain a consistent look across your site that's easily maintainable and very flexible. We use View Cells to create a Recent Posts "widget" for the sidebar. Instead of using simple objects or array, we look at using Entities for more flexible and powerful database results. We use Fabricators to create sample data in the database.
Since there was so much new stuff in this chapter, I decided to split the CRUD out into the next chapter, which will get us started testing our applications as we build out the remainder of the CRUD, all fully tested, exploring the several types of testing that can easily be done with the tools CodeIgniter provides.
