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CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development

By : Adam Griffiths
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CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development

By: Adam Griffiths

Overview of this book

<p>CodeIgniter is an open source PHP framework with a small footprint and exceptional performance. It gives you a rich set of libraries for common tasks, with a simple interface to access them. There are several unexplored aspects of CodeIgniter that can help developers build applications more easily and quickly. In this book, you will learn the intricacies of the framework and explore some of its hidden gems.<br /><br />If you want to get the most out of CodeIgniter, this book is for you. It teaches you what you need to know to use CodeIgniter on a daily basis. You will create mini-applications that teach a specific technique and let you build on top of the base. <br /><br />This book will take you through developing applications with CodeIgniter. You will learn how to make your CodeIgniter application more secure than a default installation, how to build large-scale applications and web services, how to release code to the community, and much more. You will be able to authenticate users, validate forms, and also build libraries to complete different tasks and functions.<br /><br />The book starts off introducing the framework and how to install it on your web server or a local machine. You are introduced to the Model-View-Controller design pattern and how it will affect your development. Some important parts of the CodeIgniter Style Guide are included to keep CodeIgniter development as standardized as possible; this helps greatly when working as part of a team or taking on an old CodeIgniter project. You will quickly move on to how CodeIgniter URLs work and learn about CodeIgniter-specific files such as helpers and plugins. By the time you finish this book, you will be able to create a CodeIgniter application of any size with confidence, ease, and speed.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Create a new post


To create a new post, all we need to do is perform a new POST request to the URL of the Post Controller (or server if we were doing this on a real project). We also need to send the new blog post across. We do this by creating a new serialized array with three keys: author, title, and content. Then we simply fill the array keys with the blog post author, post title and the post content, and we're all set.

Take special care when going over the line of code where we perform the request. The first parameter is the URL of the server. The second parameter is the type of request that we want to make. This is optional and defaults to GET. The final parameter is the data that you want to send across the request. This is also optional.

<?php

class Client extends Controller 
{

  function Client()
  {
    parent::Controller();
    $this->load->library('rest');
  }

  function index()
  {
    $data = array(
        'author' => 'blog post author',
        'title' => ...