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.
Clear, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter
Careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and its MVC architecture
Using CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email
Building a dynamic website quickly and easily using CodeIgniter's prepared code
Improve your PHP coding productivity with this guide to the powerful and popular CodeIgniter framework.
Setting up the CI package on your web server
Understanding the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for organizing a dynamic website
Understanding the structure of a CI site
Designing better views and controllers
Object-oriented aspects of CI
Integrating databases such as MySQL and simplifying your database access
Making your site more robust and professional by using CI's built-in classes
Creating and validating HTML forms with CI form helpers
Handling files, images, and sessions with CI
Sending email from CI
Using CI for testing your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling
Getting an XML-RPC server and client working
Generating Create, Update, Delete, and Read (C.R.U.D) entries on each database table
This book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Hesitant at first
When I first discovered CodeIgniter, I was overcome with glee after following the video tutorials. It all worked. There was no need to rely on any command-line interaction to "automagically" build my application for me. There was no dependence on PEAR or any other outside resources. There was just CodeIgniter. And it worked.
As soon as I got a grasp on what it was doing and why, I dove into the excellent User Guide and began to feel all warm and fuzzy inside. This felt like home. The ... Read More
Rating: - PHP 201 - this is it!
My favorite book on PHP/MySQL is still PHP and MySQL Web Development (3rd Edition) (Developer's Library). It's PHP 101 and MySQL 101 all wrapped up in a fantastic, comprehensive book with tons of code samples.
CodeIgniter is a perfect compliment, perhaps a PHP 201 guide. It takes all of the rigorous PHP hard-coding and supplies a framework to develop code faster and with the best practices of a MVC system. Aside from being well-written with tons of real-world examples, one of the things ... Read More
