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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’ve been broadening my horizons more and more recently, and trying new things. One of these things is Game Development.

Well, that’s not strictly true, I used the excellent program Game Maker to create some games in the past, and learning the scripting language GML was my first leap into programming, but aside from this, I’ve never really programmed any games in a proper, industry language.

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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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CodeIgniter is such a powerful framework that it allows you to do many different functions that usually take about an hour in five minutes. Things such as ftp, database queries and pagination - which take a long time to set up and debug - are readily available by the framework; and only take a few lines of code to get going

I’ve put together a simple tutorial, aimed at beginners/intermediate users, to show you how to use the File Uploading Library.

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