Migrating CI3 to CI4

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.

Entities vs Models in CI4

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.

CodeIgniter Wizard 2 Is Here

CodeIgniter Wizard 2.0.2 has been released with a large number new features added to the application, the time needed for demos increased at least ten-fold. Authentication & authorization, secure file uploads for the end user, automatic image resizing post-uploads, language localization and translation in the GUI with the ability to add unlimited number of languages and locales. Also subtle features such as auto-generation of slugs, UUIDs for primary keys, and more...

Deploying Your CI 4 app to Production

This article describes the common steps needed for your CodeIgniter 4 project to get ready for production deployment. Although CodeIgniter Wizard is extensively mentioned throughout article, the solutions described here can be applied to almost any CodeIgniter4 project. CodeIgniter Wizard creates Composer-based CI4 projects with the base framework libraries and files residing in the vendor directory and it includes the .env, composer.json and composer.lock files in the root of …