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Writing a book really opens your eyes to all the possiblities, and I’ve been looking for ages to write a really comprehensive guide to the most popular application frameworks on the internet today. So now I’ve finally got round to doing it, It’s really exciting.

So I present to you, dear reader, this: The Great Framework Experiment.

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Well, we last left off at configuring and loading the database, and now, we will move onto queries, SQL, caching and result management!

This is part two of my two part tutorial, The Guide to CI Databases. If you haven’t already, please have a look at part one. You can find it Here.

I’ve nicked a few bits from the user guide, just FYI

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I was browsing the CodeIgniter forums (as I tend to a lot these days), and I stumbled across a post made by a starter in CI. He was having trouble connecting to the database, mainly because he was looking at the older video tutorial by Derek Jones on the CI Website. This tutorial covered a very old version of CodeIgniter, and it made me realize something.

Why are there no, in-depth tutorials covering databases in CodeIgniter?

I’m talking the full nine miles, including Models, ActiveQuery, Configuration, Security, seriously, the full nine miles. Yes the CI user guide is spectacular, yes, most people know how to do this stuff anyway, but, I did what I could. I would like to introduce you to…

The CodeIgniter Guide To Databases.

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