If you have already configured CodeIgniter to connect with a database, you can skip this part, as all we're going to do is make sure we can connect to a database; to do this, we're going to amend the following two files:
/path/to/codeigniter/application/config/database.php
/path/to/codeigniter/application/config/autoload.php
In the
database.php
config file, look for the following lines and amend them accordingly:$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost'; $db['default']['username'] = 'Replace with database username'; $db['default']['password'] = 'Replace with database password'; $db['default']['database'] = 'Replace with database name';
The chances are that you'll not need to change
$db['default']['hostname']
from the'localhost'
, and replace other values (username
,password
, anddatabase
) with the specific values for your environment.In the
autoload.php
config file, look for the following line (around line 55):$autoload['libraries'...