Title : CodeIgniter 1.7
Authors : Jode Argudo Bianco & David Upton
This book explains the benefits of using CodeIgniter as PHP framework for developing PHP web applications. This book isn’t a substitute for the CodeIgniter online user guide, but is very useful to understand the philosophy and the concepts of CI.
It covers the most important features that CI offers to a PHP developer to simplify and speed up his work and outlines the best and effective practices to adopt to use the CI framework.
It introduces also some important and useful concepts of CI, like helpers and libraries to help the developer to write reusable code in different applications.
What you can learn from this book about CodeIgniter :
- Download, install, and configure a CodeIgniter site and learn how to use mod_rewrite to generate better URLs
- Organize a dynamic web site using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
- Simplify your database access by integrating databases such as MySQL
- Make your site more robust and professional by using CI’s built-in classes
- Understand the structure of a CI site and its object-oriented aspects
- Reduce the code necessary to create a form using form helper – one of the fine features of CodeIgniter
- Take any library or code, from your previous work, third-party code, etc. and put it to use inside CodeIgniter
- Generate Create, Update, Delete, and Read (C.R.U.D) entries on each database table
- Create multi-language sites, handle files, images, sessions, and send email easily with the help of CI
- Work with files easily – upload them, download them, and put them into a Zip file
- Test your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling with the help of CI
- Build a dynamic web site quickly and easily using CodeIgniter’s prepared code
