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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

Continuing with our practical site using CI


Until now you have seen how CI is structured and how the MVC pattern works. You have also seen how to work with databases, HTML, and forms. Looking at some of the CI helpers and libraries, you know how CI can help you in the site development process.

Now you will continue developing your application and see other great tools of CI. But first, recap what you are building—a site that will help you:

  • Test and keep track of your other sites

  • Manage them with a minimum of human intervention

  • Generate detailed reports of the sites and tests conducted

  • If possible it will run on a Cron job, in case that's not possible you can run it manually when you need or want to do it

  • If something goes wrong the application will send an email telling exactly what happened and where, allowing you to print those reports

With an application like that you can show the reports to your client, to impress them with the regular and comprehensive checks you are doing, and the (hopefully...