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Setting Up a Local Code Igniter Dev Environment (OSX)

I'm planning to write a tutorial on using jquery and Code Igniter to create some ajaxy / jsonp goodness. In the process, I downloaded the latest version of CI and began setting it up - when I realized the setup may be helpful to describe. While this tutorial is geared towards Mac users, most of the steps should be similar for Windows users.

Step 1

Download and Install MAMP

MAMP is the OSX version of the one-click Apache-MySQL-PHP install.  If you're on a PC, you want to try out XAMPP instead (XAMPP also comes in an OSX flavor, but I haven't personally tried it).  In any case, you'll want to download one of these two programs and follow the instru...