In DetailCodeIgniter (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.
Improve your PHP coding productivity with this guide to the powerful and popular CodeIgniter framework.
ApproachThis book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining them clearly with illustrative code examples.
Who this book is forThis book is for developers who are new to CodeIgniter. Basic skills in PHP and MySQL are required, but only rudimentary object-oriented knowledge is required.
If you're looking for a better way to develop PHP applications, or want to find out more about the CodeIgniter framework as a viable option for one of your own projects, this book will help you.
Try to think in MVC terms as you write. As far as possible, try to keep your 'views' focused purely on presentation, and your 'controllers' purely on controlling application flow. Keep the application logic in the data models and the database.
