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CodeIgniter Wizard 3

07 Mar 2025

Announcing CodeIgniter Wizard 3.x: Enhanced features that supercharge your PHP development workflow. Are you looking for a way to drastically cut down on the time you spend on routine PHP coding tasks? Then get ready for the latest evolution of your favorite rapid web application development tool! We're thrilled to announce the arrival of CodeIgniter Wizard 3.x, packed with exciting new features, significant improvements, and essential bug fixes to elevate your CodeIgniter development...

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Git Branch Ahead of Which

03 Dec 2024

Picture this: you’ve inherited a Git repository for a project with no documentation, no guidance, and no clue where to start. Or perhaps it’s an old side project of your own, one you hastily put aside and can barely remember. The HEAD isn’t pointing to a stable version, branches are everywhere, and the app itself is riddled with issues, refusing to run. Without a clear understanding of which branch is ahead or which commit might hold a functional state, you’re stuck. This tutorial dives deep into solving..

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DBA if DBs were analogue

Drop All MySQL/MariaDb Tables

07 Jan 2024

Dive into our tutorial for a seamless approach to dropping tables in MySQL/MariaDB schemas. From command-line intricacies to scripted solutions, manage foreign-key constraints effortlessly. Safeguard your data with proper backups, ensuring a trouble-free database management experience.

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Database Modeling in Navicat

Data Modeling w/Navicat

01 Jan 2024

Navicat comes with an incredibly responsive and elegant user interface design with improved usability, and it has been enabling users to get a visually appealing and semantically precise data models from their databases for almost a decade now.Released in November 2019, Navicat 15 (and Data Modeler 3.0) has some nice surprises in store, with an even more improved data modeling capability. You can now design generic data models and then convert them for a specific database platform.

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Migrating CI 3 to CI  4

Migrating CI3 to CI4

09 Jul 2023

Explore the step-by-step migration process from CodeIgniter3 to CodeIgniter4, touching upon controllers, models, views, and routes. The tutorial also introduces the CodeIgniter Wizard, a significant time-saving tool for Mac users that automates CI4 code generation through reverse-engineering of existing databases, streamlining the migration process.

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Entities vs Models in CI4

26 Mar 2023

In many popular programming frameworks that use the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigms and are database-driven using an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) system, entities and models are considered to be interchangeable terms referring to a class that represents a data entity in the database. However, CodeIgniter 4.x introduces a clear separation between entities and models - using two separate classes.

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Older Posts

  • Meet CodeIgniter Wizard 3.x

    07 Mar 2025

    Announcing CodeIgniter Wizard 3.x with Shield integration, dark mode support, improved routing and performance enhancements.

  • Git Branch Ahead of Which: Finding Order in Chaos

    03 Dec 2024

    Learn how to determine which Git branch is ahead in a local repository with no guidance or documentation. This tutorial covers practical Git commands, scripts,

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