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CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints

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CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CodeIgniter Web Application Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Design and wireframes


As always, before we start building, we should take a look at what we plan to build.

First, a brief description of our intent: we plan to build an app to allow the user to upload an image. That image will be stored in a folder with a unique name. A URL will also be generated containing a unique code, and the URL and code will be assigned to that image. The image can be accessed via that URL.

The idea of using a unique URL to access that image is so that we can control access to that image, such as allowing an image to be viewed only a set number of times, or for a certain period of time only.

Anyway, to get a better idea of what's happening, let's take a look at the following site map:

So that's the site map. The first thing to notice is how simple the site is. There are only three main areas to this project. Let's go over each item and get a brief idea of what they do:

  • create: Imagine this as the start point. The user will be shown a simple form allowing them to upload...