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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

Database tools


CodeIgniter also offers a good pack of database utilities, ranging from ease of database configuration, to using configuration files, to Active Record features such as query structures and transactions.

It lacks some of the powerful Active Record utilities and table relationships that exist on other frameworks by default, but you can also have those with some coding. At first you may find it more difficult to use the Active Record functions than plain queries, but with the help of the profiler and some time, you can learn to write Active Record queries that are easy to read.

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Benefits are:

Wide range of possibilities and tools that make our coding experience more productive, when working with databases, with a gradual learning curve. Enhanced security when using Active Record, as data is escaped automatically. Some powerful tools such as query caching and transactions. Active Record, gives us the possibility to switch databases as and when needed, from MySQL to Postgres,...