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CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

By : Robert Foster
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CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

By: Robert Foster

Overview of this book

As a developer, there are going to be times when you'll need a quick and easy solution to a coding problem. CodeIgniter is a powerful open source PHP framework which allows you to build simple yet powerful full-feature web applications. CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook will give you quick access to practical recipes and useful code snippets which you can add directly into your CodeIgniter application to get the job done. It contains over 80 ready-to-use recipes that you can quickly refer to within your CodeIgniter application or project.This book is your complete guide to creating fully functioning PHP web applications, full of easy-to-follow recipes that will aid you in any aspect of developing with CodeIgniter. CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook takes you from the basics of CodeIgniter, through e-commerce features for your applications, and ends by helping you ensure that your environment is secure for your users and SEO friendly to draw in customers. Starting with installation and setup, CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook provides quick solutions to programming problems that you can directly include in your own projects. You will be moving through databases, EU Cookie Law, caching, and everything else in-between with useful, ready-to-go recipes. You will look at image manipulation using the Image Manipulation library, user management (building a simple CRUD interface), switching languages on the fly according to the user preference, caching content to reduce server load, and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing ImageMagick on MAC with Cactuslab


Some of the features of the CodeIgniter image manipulation class require GD2, however, other features require ImageMagick. If you're using MAMP on MAC, then the chances are that you won't have it installed by default. Cactuslab have produced an installer that does the job for you.

How to do it...

  1. Go to the URL http://www.cactuslab.com/imagemagick.

  2. Download the installer. At the time of writing this, the latest version is ImageMagick 6.8.6-3 for Mac OS X 10.5 - 10.8.

  3. Run the installer, and if all goes well, you should now have ImageMagick installed. You'll need to set the $config['library_path'] value to /opt/ImageMagick/bin, as follows:

    'library_path' => '/opt/ImageMagick/bin'

How it works...

The installer takes care of everything for you: it's voodoo!