Ninjapenguin

A couple days back Dlib posted over at the learning Kohana Blog asking people for some tutorial topics, one of the mentioned options was that of the Pagination library so I thought I would help out and throw one together for it (as it’s very simple and shouldn’t take to long!

Pagination is (in most of my projects anyway) a frequently used option, it is something users have come to expect, and from an interface point of view can give us more controll over the display of large datasets, in short its probably something you should be providing if you allready arn’t! The pagination library in Kohana takes out the monotinous side to calculating the pagination links, and allows us to rapidly provide the functionality with a minimal of fuss.

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So following on from yesterdays screencast I have put together another short tutorial showing the first part of a simple blog application.

The tutorial touches on the template controller use, basic ORM implementation and basic configuration issues. It picks up straight from where the previous tutorial left off and will be concluded by a second part showing how to make use of the forge module and ORM to create and save blog entries. (more…)

So, I have been following the progress of the Kohana php framework for a little while now, after completing a number of projects using CodeIgniter I started looking for a more php5 competent framework and came across the community branch of CodeIgniter called Kohana.

I’ve been slowly getting to grips with the framework for a couple of weeks now and plan to use it in the next project I’m about to take on. It seems like a fantastic framework with some really good developers who have done some awesome stuff with the core but like any early project currently suffers (IMO) from a lack of basic documentation . .so I have decided to help (hopefully) with a short screencast on how to set up a small application (a blog) just to get people using the framework. (more…)