Codeigniter 2 Scaffolding

What are my options开发者_C百科 when dealing with scaffolding in codeigniter - do people use scaffolding often? Or is there a better way of quickly generating code to be used in CRUD applications?

I've installed sparkplug: http://code.google.com/p/sparkplug/

And it seems pretty good - I mean it's basic but super fast to implement and the code is basic but neat and easy to understand.

However I noticed that there is not much discusson surrounding the benefits/drawbacks.

Can anyone advise a) a good library/ set of tools to use? b) How best to proceed in this situation

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The idea of temporary scaffolding CRUD has always seemed a bit pointless to me for a couple reasons:

• It's not an end game solution, you're going to have to eventually implement proper (secure) CRUD operations for your application that are better tailored to your specific application's needs.
• If you just need quick and dirty DB input, Why not just use your DBMS? (phpMyAdmin, etc...)

To mitigate the time spent on repetitive application operations, I actually create a basic CRUD model so that I can have a good starting point to build the basic database interaction. That way you will actually be progressing towards your applications completion.

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Scaffolding only ever existed to save you having to crack open Navicat, phpMyAdmin, MySQL Query Builder, etc. But this day in age, if you dont know how to work a MySQL client then you probably shouldn't be be working on a bloody website so it's been removed.

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The reason I prefer to use a "quick and dirty" CRUD generator is often we bring in several non-technical people to do data clean-up. If I can easily build this "throw-away" interface without having to do a lot of coding, it saves me a lot of time as well as I am not spending much time on coding "throw-away" pages. I don't really want to give non-technical people an Admin tool just to edit data.