I have the welcome page but now what

Category:Approaches

[b]The Goal:[/b]

You've got the base system installed - you can see the Welcome to CodeIgniter page on your browser, but now you're a bit stuck. What do you do next?

You want to know the kinds of things that long-time CodeIgniter users set up on all their new installs. These are the add-ons, the changes they make to config files and directory layouts.

Basically you want to know what other people do, so you can decide if any of that stuff works for you.

[i][b]Important:[/b] this is not a tutorial on setting up auth libraries, configuring specific plug-ins, and so on - that stuff is much better covered by the wiki pages specific to that auth library, or that plug-in. This is much more a personal 'This is what I do after installing a clean CI environment and before I start doing Actual Stuff'.[/i]

[b]Discussion:[/b]

Things you can expect to learn in here: [b]o[/b] Wow! Nearly everyone uses MY_Controller [b]o[/b] Oh, you can do the same thing to MY_Model? [b]o[/b] Documentation tools - aren't they for Big Projects with Lots Of People only? [b]o[/b] Code versioning systems - aren't they for Big Projects with Lots Of People only?

[b]The approaches:[/b]

[b]o[/b] I have the welcome page - but now what - jedd - using a master view, and extending MY_Controller, [b]o[/b] I have the welcome page - but now what - yournamehere -description of your approach goes here ...

[b][i][color=grey]Need to automatically insert category/subcategory listing here somehow, later - for the moment I'll handcode in the first couple of links[/color][/i][/b]