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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 4 – the LinkedIn API wrapper


In this example, we will build the CI Library wrapper to integrate with the LinkedIn API in order to query the LinkedIn information from it.

There are several challenges in doing so, one of which is to get the token to access the LinkedIn resources and access the data objects such as the following:

  • The LinkedIn user's details

  • The LinkedIn user's connections

  • The LinkedIn company's details

  • The LinkedIn company's updates

Requirements

  • The PHP extension oauth library must be installed from http://il1.php.net/manual/en/book.oauth.php.

  • We shall register the application at LinkedIn Developers Network Homepage to receive the API key from http://developer.linkedin.com. This unique API key is required to identify our application in order to grant access from LinkedIn for responding to our API calls to their API. Once we've registered our LinkedIn app, we will be provided with an API key and a secret key. For the safety of our application, we do not share our secret key...