CodeIgniter Bootstrap Starter App

This repository provides a starter CodeIgniter 3 with Bootstrap 3 application. For this, it makes use of kenjis' CodeIgniter composer installer (see [1]). As a result, you can easily update the CodeIgniter core.

This application enhances the default CodeIgniter installation in the following ways:

• It provides basic user management, i. e., users can be created and they can login / logout
• This application is configured to support migrations (and uses them to setup the database)
• Support of themes; this starter application ships with the default Bootstrap 3 theme (several themes can be present at the same time and easily switched)
• Some other minor things, such as, 1) storing sessions in a database and 2) support for captchas is already built-in (and used)

Requirements

• PHP 5.3.7 or later
• composer command (see composer installation in [2]) (composer is required if you which to update the application core with composer)

Getting Started

Perform the following installation steps:

1. Download this repository
2. Run composer update in the root directory of the project in order to update everything; in case Bootstrap 3 or jQuery related files are updated they have to be manually copied to the application/assets/[css or js] folders in order for these updates to become effective (maybe someone has an idea how to automatize this?)
3. Set the base_url array item in application/config/config.php (as with kenjis' CodeIgniter installation your webserver should be configured to point at the this-app/public directory)
4. Set hostname, username, password, database in application/config/database.php
5. Run the migrations (by browsing to the migrate controller; afterwards, set migration_enabled in application/config/migration.php to false if you no longer which to use / support migrations or for productive use!)
6. Set sess_driver to database in application/config/config.php (in order for the just-described migration run to work this has to be set to files in the first place)
7. Optional: Create a first user by browsing to the action user/create

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[1] https://github.com/kenjis/codeigniter-composer-installer
[2] https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-osx