Title : CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
Authors : Adam Griffiths
This books covers both the basic and advanced features of CodeIgniter (MVC PHP development framework).
It explains how to use correctly the CodeIgniter (CI) API and libraries and how to build your own plugins and libraries.
It covers every aspect of the development with CI : sending email, uploading files, pagination support and session usage.
You’ll learn also how to build correctly an HTML form with CI and to use the extended and completed database API support of CI that permits also to manage easily your database, tables and fields called Database Forge.
Two chapters are dedicated to user authentication to your application and connect to external applications like Twitter and Facebook.
Application security, building large scale application and optimization are also topics covered.
The last chapters are dedicated to building web services and ho to extend CI using its hook systems.
In my opinion this is the best CodeIgniter book I have. It is an amazing resource if you use CI as your development framework and help a lot to write robust and clean code.
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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
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CodeIgniter,
PHP
