blog

I want to create a custom blog(I do not want to use an CMS that is out there)...

Does codeigniter offer any functionality to help me in this?

For example does it have any class that will help creating the pagination for the blog?

yes it has a pagination library.

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Codeigniter offers everything you could need to build a fully functional, secure, user friendly and interactive blog.

As for pagination, as iamthwee said above, it does, along with many helpers and libraries.

http://www.codeigniter.com/user_guide/li...ation.html

However, you can get a massive running start with CI, using things like http://cibonfire.com/ or many other solutions to enhance CI.

There is a nice list here that someone posted recently:
https://github.com/codeigniter-id/awesome-codeigniter

Hope that helps,

Best wishes,

Paul.

PS Post your blog here when you are done as I would love to see what you come up with.

what CI class will help me post articles....(inserting them to the DB etc....)