[RESOLVED] The software does not work for CI4?

Hello @murugappan and welcome to our forums,

I am sorry about your bad experience with Grocery CRUD Enterprise. Indeed the installation instructions has been tested multiple times before publishing. In fact there is also a video tutorial about it:

I believe the main issue that you have though is with the routes. I think the main difference (which I haven’t updated the documentation for that sorry) is that starting from Codeigniter 4.2 and later they’ve changed the default routing from “auto” to “off”. That means that the magic with your controllers will not work out of the box. In order to change that open your project at:

app/Config/Routes.php

And at around line 28 uncomment the line:

// $routes->setAutoRoute(false);

and change it to:

$routes->setAutoRoute(true);

This should work for you for now. I will try to also update the documentation and the package that we have online since it doesn’t correspond to the Codeigniter 4.2 update. In short, I will include the extra routes that you need for every CRUD so you can work with the new defaults of Codeigniter 4.

Regards
Johnny

Also I’ve updated the documentation: Codeigniter 4 Installation | Grocery CRUD - A PHP CRUD Generator Library with an extra step:

Step 6. Change the routes to correspond to your controller

Since Codeigniter 4.2.0 or later the Routing is not defaulting to auto-routing. This means that you will need to add the routes manually. Go to app/Config/Routes.php and add the below code for every function that is using grocery CRUD:

// Make sure that you always add get and post functions
$routes->get('/example/customers', 'Example::customers');
$routes->post('/example/customers', 'Example::customers');

I hope this will work for you.

Regards
Johnny

Hello @murugappan ,

I double checked the tutorial plus the files and I understand where the confusion is. In the tutorial we are downloading the file with name “Without composer” and not the “with Codeigniter 4”

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This is confusing and to be honest for Grocery CRUD version 3 I am trying to come up with a slightly different page (once we have all sorted out I may need your help here )

Now I understand also that there are lot of steps and sometimes we are very close to the solution and so far at the same time.

Can you please attach a screenshot of what you see when you try to load Grocery CRUD Enterprise and we can take it from there?

Regards
Johnny

Hello @murugappan ,

I am really sorry to hear that. I really do Of course I understand though. As I alway say, we all have bosses and deadlines and unfortunately I am not an exception either!

Grocery CRUD is in fact designed for being easily installed from newbies. Grocery CRUD Enterprise requires some more steps due to the nature that it supports multiple frameworks.

I will not start with any excuse of why the installation needs a better documentation for Codeigniter 4. Of course they are reasons behind it but it will not help at the current situation. Keep in mind that I’ve already changed the installations for Grocery CRUD Enterprise version 3 that I am working at the moment to release it to Enterprise users the soonest possible. The way that you install it for CI 4 and Laravel 9 will be with as less steps as possible. In fact Laravel 9 supports many out of the box commands to create and install third-party libraries. I want to do a research to see if there are several tools for Codeigniter 4 as well. I hope I will find some tools there as well since composer is really helping on the installations.

Regards
Johnny