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CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

By : Robert Foster
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CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

By: Robert Foster

Overview of this book

As a developer, there are going to be times when you'll need a quick and easy solution to a coding problem. CodeIgniter is a powerful open source PHP framework which allows you to build simple yet powerful full-feature web applications. CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook will give you quick access to practical recipes and useful code snippets which you can add directly into your CodeIgniter application to get the job done. It contains over 80 ready-to-use recipes that you can quickly refer to within your CodeIgniter application or project.This book is your complete guide to creating fully functioning PHP web applications, full of easy-to-follow recipes that will aid you in any aspect of developing with CodeIgniter. CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook takes you from the basics of CodeIgniter, through e-commerce features for your applications, and ends by helping you ensure that your environment is secure for your users and SEO friendly to draw in customers. Starting with installation and setup, CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook provides quick solutions to programming problems that you can directly include in your own projects. You will be moving through databases, EU Cookie Law, caching, and everything else in-between with useful, ready-to-go recipes. You will look at image manipulation using the Image Manipulation library, user management (building a simple CRUD interface), switching languages on the fly according to the user preference, caching content to reduce server load, and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Confirming cookie acceptance from the user


Various states and regions now require websites to ask their users if they approve of that website writing cookies to their computer. There is some debate as to how this can be provisioned by the website and what constitutes approval from the user. You may have noticed that recently websites display a notice to the user requesting approval. Something called Implied Consent is the current thinking; a notice is shown informing the user that if they continue to use the site they are happy with the cookies being written.

The following recipe does just that; and a notice is shown to the user that will disappear if they click on a link indicating they are happy with cookies being written.

Getting ready

We need to make sure some config variables are set for us to be able to read and write cookies to a user’s computer.

Open the /path/to/codeigniter/application/config/config.php file and make the following changes:

$config array items

Description

$config...