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CodeIgniter 1.7

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CodeIgniter 1.7

Overview of this book

CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm. This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. It is not a detailed guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal complement to the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you grasp the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible. This book will start you from the basics, installing CodeIgniter, understanding its structure and the MVC pattern. You will also learn how to use some of the most important CodeIgniter libraries and helpers, upload it to a shared server, and take care of the most common problems. If you are new to CodeIgniter, this book will guide you from bottom to top. If you are an experienced developer or already know about CodeIgniter, here you will find ideas and code examples to compare to your own.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
CodeIgniter 1.7
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
Preface

Summary


If you already know some PHP and are designing intelligent websites, the CodeIgniter framework is all about making your life easier. It helps you to:

  • Save time

  • Make your site more robust

  • Achieve more sophisticated coding

  • It makes coding fun again, rather than a chore

There are quite a lot of frameworks and all of them offer chunks of pre-written code that make the repetitive or complex processes of coding easier and not just for the PHP language. They impose a helpful structure on your site's development.

This book does not make any comparisons between frameworks. CI works for most, and we will see, how and why. It will be useful for you too, and you will be able to save much time and, as a result, enjoy the coding process more.

This book takes you through some of the framework's main features, and tries to explain some of what goes on "under the hood". We've used a real-world example for the code illustrations in this book to show that CI is a serious tool that can be quickly and easily used in a demanding environment.

Enjoy!