Chris Fidao fideloper

CodeIgniter Style Guide

This is collectively being called a style guide, however it serves as a standard to enforce a stricter and more enforced methodology in how programming should be done in CodeIgniter.

Why

CodeIgniter is powerful. CodeIgniter is hugely popular. It's popular because it's easy. It's easy because there are many ways to accomplish a task.

CodeIgniter is terrible for the exact reasons which make it powerful. You can too easily place code in a confusing place, or not separate concerns, thus creating programming challenges down the line. It's noob-friendly, which means it's inherently easy to make noob mistakes.

This document serves to restrict coding practices within CodeIgniter with the purpose of making an application with more class (pun without-a-doubt, most-strongly intended).

Separate blog posts:

Installation (Ubuntu)
Configuration
Usage in code

	<?php if ( ! defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

	//Create a new config file

	/*
	\|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	\| Number of databases in use
	\|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	\|
	\| Using a Master and Slave. The Slave doubles as a read-only database.

	<?php

	/*
	Note that this does not use app icons or links in Timeline post. Some messaging is therefor lost.
	*/

	require 'fb/src/facebook.php';

	$facebook = new Facebook(array(
	'appId' => 'SOME_APP_ID',

	[alias]
	#Basic
	st = status -sb
	co = checkout

	#Flow
	fs = flow feature start
	ff = flow feature finish

	#Infoz

	#!/bin/bash

	function show_usage {
	echo "Use to clean .DS_Store and ._* files which macintosh loves to add to your file system."
	echo "This works recursively"
	echo "Usage: $ cleanmac /path/of/dir"
	echo "Defaults to current directory '.' "
	exit 1
	}

	#!/bin/bash
	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	#########################################
	# Define source and destinations

	MONGO_DBS=""
	BACKUP_TMP=~/tmp
	BACKUP_DEST=~/backups
	MONGODUMP_BIN=/Users/wahyusumartha/Documents/mongodb-db/bin/mongodump
	TAR_BIN=/usr/bin/tar

	#Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7600313/find-command-that-returns-line-number-of-the-string

	find . -name '*.php' -print \| xargs grep -Hn 'print_r'

	#############################################################################
	## data source definitions
	#############################################################################

	source users
	{
	# data source type. mandatory, no default value
	# known types are mysql, pgsql, mssql, xmlpipe, xmlpipe2, odbc
	type = mysql

	#
	# Scenario: On develop branch, need to work on 'something'
	#

	# Create a new feature branch to work on 'something'
	$ git flow feature start something
	### ...work, add, commit, repeat...

	# Finished the 'something' work
	$ git flow feature finish something