CodeIgniter (2.1.0) Starting Point - Status = production ready

A custom CodeIgniter installation with useful libraries, helpers, fixes, and useful modifications to the standard distributed code released by Ellis Labs.

Changes and Additions

CI settings

• Saving session data to db
• Autoloading helpers, libraries, and config files

CI restructuring

• Moved application/config/database.php to application/config/database.php-default

.htaccess

• Mod_Rewrite rules to create pretty urls

crossdomain.xml

• None policy so access is not allowed from other domains - e.g. flash

Git ignore

• Ignored application/config/database.php
• Ignored application/config/settings_environment.php
• Ignored log files
• Ignored cache files

Constants - Added useful info

• Website name and slogan
• Meta description and keywords
• Twitter & Blog RSS feeds
• Email address' - support, developer, system

Environment settings - application/config/system_environment.php

• Profiler ON/OFF
• Email error log ON/OFF

Added base controllers

• Frontend
• Admin
• Shared

Helpers

• Debug
• Time - https://github.com/ollierattue/codeigniter-time-helper
• URL
• Form
• Tax helper (UK VAT rate)
• Page
• Template

Libraries

• Links library - Save database table names into application/config/database_tables.php and the array key is then used in models. This means a table rename only needs to be updated in one place.
• Autoresponder - https://github.com/ollierattue/codeigniter-autoresponder
• SimpleLoginSecure auth library - http://codeigniter.com/wiki/SimpleLoginSecure/
• Router extension - allows controllers to have multiple directories - https://github.com/ollierattue/codeigniter-multi-level-controller-extension
• URI library extension - filter_uri() now allows url_encode characters
• Form validation extension - added greater_than_or_equal(), email_available() with ajax support, current_password_check()
• Log library extension - emails errors to developer - http://wpstorm.net/2009/05/email-log-messages-library-codeigniter/
• Session library extension - set_flashmessage() with 'success' or 'error' status which adds div formatting as applicable.
• DB utility library extension - fixed bug in csv_from_result() and added html encoding

Models and db

• Countries db table and model

Controllers and views

• Admin login, dashboard, logout functionality
• Amnesia - forgotten password reset

CSS

• Structured in frontend, admin, and shared directories
• Useful generic helper and reset code
• Useful form, development, and flash_data styling

Javascript

• jQuery
• Json js encode/decode functions

Images

• Image directory with useful icons

TODO

• Move to Tank Auth library from SimpleLoginSecure