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CodeIgniter 1.7

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CodeIgniter 1.7

Overview of this book

CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm. This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible. This book will start you from the basics, installing CodeIgniter, understanding its structure and the MVC pattern. You will also learn how to use some of the most important CodeIgniter libraries and helpers, upload it to a shared server, and take care of the most common problems. If you are new to CodeIgniter, this book will guide you from bottom to top. If you are an experienced developer or already know about CodeIgniter, here you will find ideas and code examples to compare to your own.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
CodeIgniter 1.7
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Making our site more scalable and our code more reusable


CI makes extensive use of libraries, helpers, and plugins. This makes coding very easy and modular. Moreover, we can create our own libraries or place third-party code in a library. This way we can make use of code from our previous projects or, as we have said, third-party code. This way we can reuse code from one site on another very easily. Libraries can be very modular, and to use them in another project we simply copy them.

Note

Benefits are:

We can reuse code easily from one project for another, creating our own CI libraries, helpers, and so on.