Better Controllers and Models in CodeIgniter

codeigniter, controllers, models

CodeIgniter is an expressive, flexible gorgeous web application framework, but it is often a little too simple for my personal convenience. In my recent talk at EECI I talked about my experiences with Ruby on Rails and how the PHP and CodeIgniter community could learn from it, and showed off my MY_Controller.php and MY_Model.php classes. I’ve had a few people ask me about them and so I thought I’d release them and write a tutorial here so that you guys can speed up your development and write better applications.

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