If Only I Knew That!

Not really a webby thing that could save you time but yesterday we finished a 2 phase build.

Phase 1: A user backend as such, consisting of a 7 part entry form including ajax image cropping, lots of custom validation and conditional form elements.

Phase 2: The frontend, uses Infinite scroll to create a single page of user profiles, there is also a ajax rating system.

Codeigniter allowed use to build the site in 6 weeks, with 3 solid weeks dev on the forms. All the JS is jQuery based.

Check it out for yourself healthy life awards

After setting up several codeigniter based sites with dev/staging/production environments, I thought I’d write up the steps I undertake.

A overview of the steps are:

1. Download CI and upload to hosting environment
2. Rename ‘system’ directory
3. Move ‘application’ directory to public accessible directory
4. Upload and modify index.php
5. Add .htaccess to remove index.php from URL’s
6. Modify ‘config.php’ for domain and remove of index.php form URL’s
7. Add ‘application.php’ specific config file
8. Modify ‘database.php’ config for dev/staging/production
9. Modify the autoload config for regularly used libraries, helpers and application config file