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I’ve pushed on github a skeleton application based on codeigniter, bootstrap and html5boilerplate.

The project is under development and the ideas is to have a base web app using the most interesting goodies available (in my opinion of course 😊)

take a look
https://github.com/vesparny/codeigniter-html5boilerplate-twitter-bootstrap

The project is also using a MY_Controller for a smart view rendering.

...and let me know 😊

interested to see where you go with this.

i just want to create a simple CI skeleton app…

I’d like to start testing this, but I can’t find any docs on getting started. Can you provide just the basics, and I’ll figure out the rest?

I’d like to start testing this, but I can’t find any docs on getting started. Can you provide just the basics, and I’ll figure out the rest?

I’ve just finished to push a new version on github with a bit more exaustive documentation.

Redownload the project, in the home view i’ve just created a single static but complete html page like bootstrap documentation.

- edit .htaccess file in order to match your server config (see line 5 in the file); if you have http://localhost/site you nedd to set RewriteBase /site/
-set up yor defaults values in application/config/development/custom.php
-take a look to home controller and template view files to understand how does rendering works.
-create your template: i’ve set up an header, footer, nav, and main for example purpose. Skeleton.php contains the scaffolding page.

let me know if i may help you in some way.  fell free to fork my projects and contribute with pull requests.

I gabbed a copy of your latest code, and have begun to read through it. While I only understand a bit of it as this point, it looks to be a way via using MY_Controller to template a View so that as you create new Controllers you don’t need to worry about the JS/CSS in the header of each file.

Am I understanding this right?

I gabbed a copy of your latest code, and have begun to read through it. While I only understand a bit of it as this point, it looks to be a way via using MY_Controller to template a View so that as you create new Controllers you don’t need to worry about the JS/CSS in the header of each file.

Am I understanding this right?

exactly, and if you want to use another main template you just need to create a new file like main.php that include your new page structure, and in your controller set it via $this->template = “new_template”, in this way your new template will be pushed to skeleton.php ann page rendered.
you can also push another javascript or css in your view $this->css = array(“path/to/file/file.css”).

take a look to skeleton.php and main.php

Thanks - I’ll check it out some more tomorrow.

Hi Vesparny,

I grabbed a copy of your latest code and have begun to read though the code. While I understand most of it I have still got one question I could not find in the given comments and documentation on the Github page;

Is it possible to pass variables to the template though the controller. Normally you would use something like:

$data['variable1'] = 'My variable1 output';
$data['variable2'] = 'My variable2 output';
$this->load->view('welcome_message', $data);

Can you tell me and the community how to achieve this?! Thanks in advance.

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I have did another good look at the code and figured it out. For anyone who likes to know:

$this->data['variable1'] = 'My variable1 output';

That is the right way…if you Want you can fork the repo and help me to improve the documentatio. Thanks

I’ve just downloaded this and will be playing around with it. So far it seems you’ve done a very nice job of integrating the three. The documentation could certainly be improved, but once that is done I believe you will have a very good ‘base’ set for web apps.

I’ve just downloaded this and will be playing around with it. So far it seems you’ve done a very nice job of integrating the three. The documentation could certainly be improved, but once that is done I believe you will have a very good ‘base’ set for web apps.

are you experiencing trouble?
i really apreciate every kind of contribution : if you would improve the docs send me a pull req. 😊

I’ll play around with it a bit.

I’m not a very experienced CI developer, but once I start to understand your framework more, I’ll pitch in some documentation.

For now, I suggest explaining your view setup more.

Hello @vesparny and all CI coders.

I just got started my journey with this framework and it’s great - even for newbies like me.

Although, I have a problem with integrating Tank auth library with your bootstrap pack.

I mean, I know that there’s a template view for every website element like header, footer etc.

But I can’t figure out how to make login form in the navbar.

I discovered that TankAuth has a following code in home controller:

if (!$this->tank_auth->is_logged_in()) {
   redirect('/auth/login/');
  } else {
   $this->data['user_id'] = $this->tank_auth->get_user_id();
   $this->data['username'] = $this->tank_auth->get_username();
   $this->data['role']  = $this->tank_auth->get_role();
   
   $this->_render('pages/home'); 
  }

And I already connected it with your _render method, which is awesome at the point 😊

But, still can’t put the login form inside the navbar without making crappy code 😊

Do I have to write a method in nav_helper (like isLoggedIn) ? Or is there a better way to make it work?

Thank you in advance
Cheers