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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

Delete a post


Deleting a blog post is very easy. We change the request method from either of the two previous examples from POST or PUT to DELETE. We can remove the serialized array from the code altogether, as in this case it isn't needed. Then we select our URL carefully. If we want to delete a single post, we supply a URL with an ID appended to the third URI string segment, as seen in the next example:

<?php

class Client extends Controller 
{

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

  function index()
  {    
    $request = $this->rest->
     request("http://localhost/0905_08/index.php/server/post/4/","DELETE");
    
  }

}

?>

If we wanted to delete all of the blog posts, however, we simply remove the ID from the URL altogether.

<?php

class Client extends Controller 
{

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