Code Ingiter video tutorial
September 28th, 2006
There’s been some interest in the past for video tutorials that are a bit more advanced.
What I’ve done is created a 20 minute (yeah, I wish it was shorter too) video tutorial where I tried to use some advanced techniques. In it, I tried to hit on AJAX usage, the scriptaculous library for both visual effects and an autocompleting search form, models, and unobtrusive javascript techniques.
This is not a gentle introduction into Code Igniter. I spend hardly any time explaining how to set up controllers and views. The target audience is really people who have hacked around with CI a bit, and are wanting some insight into how somebody else does it. I don’t claim my techniques are perfect, but I’m betting that a little insight into someone else’s mind might be useful, and I think generally web devs could benefit from more CSS and unobtrusive javascript.
I used CI 1.4 (yeah, the beta), and the full source code, including SQL files, images, CSS, javascript, etc is available for download.
After building that, I have a whole newfound respect for the incredible effort and care that went into building the original videos - it was a lot of work.
I’d be happy to field any feedback.
This entry was made on September 28th, 2006 @ 0:23 and filed into CodeIgniter, How-To.
