A profile content manager built on the CodeIgniter framework
#Setup
##Branches The project has been organized in a minimal branch master and dev setup. All new code is committed to the dev branch. Upon submission of assignment due dates, dev branch is merged into master. Then a release of the master branch is created, preserving the current state of the project at the point of submission of the project
##Database To use the profile-cms project, you will need to create a localhost database named profile-cms. Then run the script located in the /scripts folder. This will seed your database with the required tables and a couple of accounts. At minimum you must keep the administrator account as this will give you access on the site to the admin info page.
Credentials for the administrator account: email: [email protected] password: P@$$w0rd
Additionally there is a standard user account that you may use: email: [email protected] password: password
#Information For Marker
- There are two admin pages. A Site admin page that is accessible using only the admin account. This page allows admin users to view accounts currently on the system and delete them if necessary. A user admin page also exists which allows standard users to create / update / delete profile information belonging to thier profile page.
- Rich text editing is used throughout the profile editing admin page. Most specifically is when a user adds a project to thier account. Login, scrolldown and select the Projects header to expand the projects. Select the "+" button to display the create new project form
- Usecases are located in the github Wiki page under "Use Cases" section. Or Click Here
Smarty is relatively easy and has been smoothly integrated into CodeIgniter. All of the functions available on the Smarty documentation are available and executable from CodeIgniter. The only difference is how you reference smarty
With its integration into CodeIgniter, you no longer need to create a smarty object, it is now autoloaded into the system
Simply add items belonging to your smarty template as so:
$this->smarty->assign("template-value-name","value to pass");
Then to call your view go:
$this->smarty->display("nameoftemplate.tpl");
This would then load the nameoftemplate.tpl file in application/views/templates and then replace all {$template-value-name} values with "value to pass"
Smarty documentation is available here: http://www.smarty.net/crash_course
In application/libraries/Smarty.php you can also view the custom "view" function. This has been defined as a convenience function to act as the parser->parse() function but with the smarty engine. To use it, use it the same as the CodeIgniter parser:
$this->smarty->view("templatefile","dataarray","TRUE/FALSE")
whether this can take .php or .tpl files as a template file I do not know. The purpose is so that if sections of your code still use the $this->data['something'] to store data meant to go to the view, it can still be forwarded to your view. This also allows you to pass arrays of definitions instead of assigning each one. Though smarty docs may provide options on how to pass arrays aswell.
Remember, ALL smarty doc'd methods are supposed to work. These other class are just wrappers to redirect CodeIgniter to Smarty's core files appropriatly which are located in system/libs/smarty
The tutorial to install this add-on and whatever documentation by them is avilable here: http://www.coolphptools.com/codeigniter-smarty
##Directories Reference:
Smarty.php (configuration file) - application/libraries/Smarty.php
Smarty core - system/libs/smarty
Smarty templates - application/views/templates
Smarty compiled templates (do not touch) - application/views/templates_c