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Programming with CodeIgniter MVC

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Programming with CodeIgniter MVC

Overview of this book

The CodeIgniter Model-View-Controller framework provides genius simplicity, flexibility, and efficient resource usage, boosting performance and reusability. "Programming with CodeIgniter MVC" reviews the unique features of CodeIgniter using simple, easy-to-follow, and practical examples. Programming with CodeIgniter MVC provides a simple step-by-step guide to efficiently utilizingthe CodeIgniter MVC framework for developing web applications. This book is packed with engaging examples to understand the usage of controllers, libraries, and (Codeigniter) CI Models. This book commences with a quick discussion of the CodeIgniter Integration with  external plugins such as Flickr API, Google Maps and more will be reviewed with clear usage examples. It will then cover CI naming convention rules, mandatory and optional configurations, and usage within a CI project. It will also cover user defined configurations. By the end of this book, you will not only understand user-defined libraries in a CI framework, but also their services, role, usage, and scope with the help of an example-based approach. The book also covers helpers, models, and views, as well as their usage. Using this book, youwill soonbe able to develop feature-rich web applications using the CodeIgniter MVC framework. "Programming with CodeIgniter MVC" is a one-stop solution to developing solutions with CodeIgniter MVC.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Programming with CodeIgniter MVC
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Appendix
Index

Chapter 2. Configurations and Naming Conventions

This chapter initially introduces the CI naming conventions. These conventions include the rules, style guide, and CodeIgniter naming spirit. The second part of this chapter will review CI project configurations for built-in resources as well as user-defined or third-party add-on libraries. Note that we will actually build our own project code in the subdirectory application described in Chapter 1, Getting Started, with optionally relative resource directories for our project's self-made resources, such as CSS / Media / jQuery libraries' resources or third-party add-ons, extending the base CI downloaded from the Ellis Labs site or GitHub.

We should remember that developing a CI project is done by replacing/expanding the default provided controllers, views, models, and other resources in a well-defined OOP fashion. We should extend controllers, models, and add additional views as well as use defined helpers or libraries. We can add these from...