Will Program for Food!

Its been a while since I started working with CodeIgniter… and here is the promised tutorial on setting up a local development environment.

First get the following softwares:

Net Beans IDE   http://netbeans.org/

XAMPP http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html I prefer the full package over the Lite version.

Get XAMPP for windows or LAMP for Linus.. I personally work on a windows based system hence I am going with XAMPP.. This is nothing but a simple & easy to use package that gets you “Apache web server, MySQL, PHP and Perl” all rolled up in a nice little installer.  

Install both the applications.. Make sure you have PHP selected on Net Beans install… I went with installing everything Net Beans comes with..

If you would like to debug your php code through the IDE then get “xdebug”, I wasn’t very interested in this, so left it out of my workflow..

There now you are good to go with developing applications using CodeIgniter framework. It offers several libraries and helper classes to make things easier for you.

I found a few nice tutorials for CodeIgniter as well.. I’ll post them as videos soon…

Recently completed website

www.et-consultants.co.uk

Its only a static site and its for a kent,UK based company who specialize in Engineering & Technology Consulting. They also provide funding for small to medium sized businesses with a special interest in Kent based Businesses.

The site was done up using HTML, CSS, and PHP for the contact form. 

Yay.. My leap into the world of full fledged web application development occurred today and am contemplating the use of an MVC framework.. For those who have no idea about it, Here’s a small hint.. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–View–Controller

I’m deciding to use CodeIgniter since it stays close to PHP and I like PHP… In my opinion, things such as the MVC framework has been done up just to make the already lazy designers & developers even more lazy or ignorant. Oh well, anything that makes life easier I guess.. 

But my rant aside, the framework does help speed up the development process a lot, especially if you have a team of people working on the same application.

I will keep posting about my progress through the system and the best way to set up a development environment to work locally… Ask me questions if you need help with something similar.

We have finally managed to finish the game.. Its called Spearhead Fight for Humanity.

Here’s a link to the game.. www.gamestiger.com

I also made the website or rather crawled myself through web programming.. it was a great experience anyways..

The website was done up using HTML, CSS, PHP, PayPal API, MySql and Socket programming.

The game itself has turned out really well.. Check it out..