CI offers a lot of goodies to make coding easier and to make your websites more professional. This chapter looked at just five of them:
The
text
helper provides useful functions to manipulate and convert strings.The
date
helper allows you to convert between different date formats and also to cope with time zones.The
Language
class makes it easier to write multi-lingual websites, which respond to user preferences. Alas, you still have to do the translation!The
Table
class lets you output properly formed HTML tables, directly from a database query if you need to.Automatically caching high-load dynamic pages provides a faster response.