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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

Example 3 – building a library such as the Flickr API wrapper


The flickr.com website by Yahoo! provides API access to the Flickr repository of public photos uploaded to the community. The API is extremely rich, and its documentation is available at http://www.flickr.com/services/api/, and is called App Garden.

The API is enabled for various programming languages and access methods. We will build a solution of a wrapper that can be expanded to get any Flickr API service, using the PHP REST access method.

This example will be constructed from the following library, controller, and view:

  • application/libraries/flickr_wrapper.php: The is the CI wrapper library that enables smooth Flickr API access via CI. This basic services library can be expanded to support the entire Flickr App Garden.

  • application/controllers/flickr_recent.php: This is the controller that uses the flickr_wrapper library that we wrote and pulls the recent public photos uploaded with the EXIF photo info and the photographer-related...