CodeIgniter 4 with Smarty 4 template engine

About the project?

Base on my improved version of ci4 - Build Your First Application:

Original improved.

What was added:

• take advantage of template engine like Smarty php

What was used

• php: 8.1
• mysql: 8
• Docker
• CodeIgniter: 4.3.6
• Smarty php: 4.3 -> more about it

side by side template code (Smarty vs Vanilla Ci4 template engine)

image of the App

Editor and Recommend extensions

• Editor: VS Code (By Microsoft)

• PHP Intelephense (By Ben Mewburn)

• PHP Namespace Resolver (By Mehedi Hassan)

• PHP Awesome Snippets (By HakCorp)

• Smarty Template Support(Aswin Kumar)

• To better developement it is taked advantages of this two wonderfull vscode extensions:

  • Docker (By Microsoft): to manage docker containers in vs code
  • Dev Containers (By Microsoft): to use vscode inside of the container.

Setup (using docker without compose)

php image: read the Dockerfile

mysql image in terminal:

docker run --name db_ci \
     -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=secret \
     -e MYSQL_DATABASE=ci4 \
     -e MYSQL_USER=dev \
     -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret \
     -dp 3307:3306 mysql;