John Resig

• How jQuery Works
• jQuery Online Movie Tutorial

Karl Swedberg

• Working with Events, part 1
• Animated Scrolling with jQuery 1.2
• Automatic Page Contents
• More Showing, More Hiding

Building Your First jQuery Plug-ins

• A Plugin Development Pattern
• Developing a jQuery Plugin
• Building Your First jQuery Plugin

Doctrine is (as they describe it on the website):

Doctrine is a PHP ORM (object relational mapper) for PHP 5.2.3+ that sits on top of a powerful PHP DBAL (database abstraction layer). One of its key features is the ability to optionally write database queries in an OO (object oriented) SQL-dialect called DQL inspired by Hibernates HQL. This provides developers with a powerful alternative to SQL that maintains a maximum of flexibility without requiring needless code duplication.

The tutorial walks you step-by-step through the process of integrating Doctrine with CodeIgniter and then dives even deeper into topics such as model relationships, hooks, profiling, DQL, templates, and data hydrators. Overall, it’s a very thorough tutorial.

• Day 1: Install and Setup
• Day 2: The Basics
• Day 3: User Signup Form
• Day 4: User Login
• Day 5: Database CRUD
• Day 6: Models with Relationships
• Day 7: Fixtures & Forum List
• Day 8: Hooks, Profiling & DQL
• Day 9: Templates & Data Hydrators
• Day 10: …coming soon

FYI – In the end I decided against using Doctrine in my project, as it added a bit too much weight and required that I mess with yet another layer. But you stand to lose nothing going through these tutorials, you will learn a lot even if you decide against Doctrine in the end.

5 Great new Features in jQuery 1.4

1. All Events can now be Live Events (.live) - The magic that is the Live Event no longer has the restrictions the original release put upon it (except in the case of focus and blur, which should be replaced with focusin and focusout).
2. We can now unwrap as well as wrap (unwrap()) - This always felt like a given…and it’s great to finally have it.
3. Clean and easy attributes when creating elements (documentation) - Rather than creating a messy,endless string attributes, we can now combine them all into a clean new form.
4. New nextUntil, prevUntil and parentsUntil methods - Each of these methods traverses the DOM in the desired direction until the passed selector is satisfied…this is a great addition for form validation.
5. New .detach() method allows element removal with deleting data - This is great for complex application state changes in which you’d like to hold on to removed elements for later, rather than recreating them from scratch (the data saved includes information attached via .data() method as well).

For a more intense/in-depth overview of the new features, checkout Day 1 of the 14 Days of jQuery website.

Screencasts

• Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework
• Day 2: Database Selecting Methods
• Day 3: Sending Emails
• Day 4: Newsletter Signup
• Day 5: CRUD
• Day 6: Login
• Day 7: Pagination

Tutorials

• Everything You Need to Get Started with CodeIgniter – Net Tuts
• Getting Started with CodeIgniter – IBM
• Tips for Getting Started Building an Application Using CodeIgniter – Derek Allard
• Getting Started with CodeIgniter – Source Bits
• Getting Started CodeIgniter Book

Screencasts

• Hello World – Introduction to CodeIgniter – CodeIgniter Website
• Create a Blog in 20 Minutes – CodeIgniter
• Easy Development with CodeIgniter – Net Tuts

The CodeIgniter User Guide gives this example:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

But this has a tendency to fail for most people, who must then resort to the forums.

A more elaborate solution can be found in the CodeIgniter Forums.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
      #Removes access to the system folder by users.
      #Additionally this will allow you to create a System.php controller,
      #previously this would not have been possible.
      #'system' can be replaced if you have renamed your system folder.
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^system.*
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]
      #Checks to see if the user is attempting to access a valid file,
      #such as an image or css document, if this isn't true it sends the
      #request to index.php
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_rewrite.c>
      # If we don't have mod_rewrite installed, all 404's
      # can be sent to index.php, and everything works as normal.
      # Submitted by: ElliotHaughin
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php
</IfModule>
   AddHandler php5-script .php


This should take care of your problem. If not shoot me a comment and I’ll see what I can do to help.

I really have nothing negative to say about the user guide that comes standard with every download. It is a wonderful reference whether you are just beginning, or a seasoned developer in CodeIgniter.

PDF & PNG

• CodeIgniter 1.6.3 PDF
• CodeIgniter 1.7 PDF Printable Copy
• CodeIgniter Reference Sheet

Compared to the list I published for jQuery, the list of resources available for CodeIgniter is much smaller. Some might consider that a downside to choosing it as a framework, but I have always looked at it another way. The lack of third-party documentation of CodeIgniter highlights just how great the included user guide really is.  I’ve never needed another reference (except the occasional cheat sheet) and I don’t think you will either.

If you already use jQuery in your projects, you probably visit this on a daily basis (I have dedicated a bookmark to it in Safari). This will help you find examples of everything the latest release has to offer.

There is, of course, one down side to their official documentation…it’s a bit sloppy and can be a little slow from time-to-time. In an attempt to make the documentation a bit more accessible many sites, pdf, and iphone apps have been published to take the place of the official doc.

Here’s a comprehensive list of all the community has to offer:

PDF & PNG

• jQuery API Documentation
• jQuery Cheat Sheet
• jQuery Cheat Sheet Background

Sites

• jQuery API (via Remy Sharp)
• Visual jQuery (via Remy Sharp)
• jQuery Adobe Air App (via Remy Sharp)

iPhone

• iPhone Friendly Reference for jQuery 1.4
• jQuery Cheat Sheet App
• jQuery Cookbook App

As many of you know, CodeIgniter and jQuery work beautifully together, and both communities have worked tirelessly to provide everyone with helpful tips and tutorials. And while there are already plenty of resources out there, I have a difficult time finding one place where they are all pulled together.

This will soon be that place.