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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

Creating Hooks in CodeIgniter


There you are, quite happily using some framework or CMS to run a website, and you've just been asked to get it to do something which it was not originally designed. You begrudgingly agreed and start to work out how to implement what's been asked. You decide that you'll amend the core system files of whatever platform you've been stuck with because it's quick and easy, and because your boss used terms such as "quick wins" and "cost efficient".

Anyway, the requested functionality works and everyone's happy—except the poor person (that may still be you) who comes along a few months later to upgrade the platform to the latest version and…BANG! That amendment you made to the system core, forget it! It's been lost by overwriting it with the new files from the upgrade. Now, that crazy thing you were asked to implement no longer works and you're left trying to remember what you did to get it working. Then before anyone notices, it's missing, and you're left thinking...