Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewer; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to CodeIgniter; What can CodeIgniter do for you?; Save time; Make your site more robust; Keep your links up-to-date automatically; Preventing database SQL injection attacks and form prepping; Protect your site from XSS attacks; Make your code bolder; Send email attachments without hassles; Save bandwidth by zipping files that users need to download; What CI doesn't do; Yes, but ... what is CodeIgniter? What are frameworks?
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Advantages of using the Active Record classSaving time; Automatic functionality; Read queries; Displaying query results; Create and update queries; Delete queries; Mixing Active Record and ""classic"" styles; Dealing with complex queries; Summary; Chapter appendix: MySQL query to set up the website's database; Chapter 5: Simplifying HTML Pages and Forms; Writing a view; Long and short PHP syntax and other CodeIgniter style guidelines; File format; PHP closing tag; Nesting views; Practical issues of site architecture; CI's form helper-entering data; Form helper advantage one: Clarity
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Comparing CI to other open source solutions (CakePHP and Joomla!)What to choose; License; Summary; Chapter 2: Setting up a CodeIgniter Site; Prerequisites; Installing CodeIgniter; Exploring the file structure; Does it work?-checking our CI installation; The configuration file; Autoloading libraries, helpers, and so on; Mod rewrite and apache .htaccess to achieve nice URL rewrites; Moving the application directory and the system directory-benefits; Summary; Chapter 3: Navigating Your Site; MVC: Model-View-Controller; But how does all this work?; The welcome controller; Working with views
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Form helper advantage two: AutomationMy display model; CI's form validation class: Checking data easily; Setting up validation; Setting up the controller; Setting up forms; Let's pack it all together; Summary; Chapter 6: Simplifying Sessions and Security; Continuing with our practical site using CI; Moving around the site; Security/Sessions: Using another CI library class; Turning sessions into security; But what about logout?; Isn't there anything already built?; Security; Summary; Chapter 7: CodeIgniter and Objects; Object-oriented programming; The CI super-object; Copying by reference
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The default controllerCodeIgniter syntax rules; Controller; View; Types of files or classes on a CI site; Designing a better view; Designing a better controller; Getting parameters to a function; Passing data to a view; How CI classes pass information and control to each other; Calling views; Calling functions directly; Interacting with controllers; An example of a CI helper-the URL helper; A simple library example-creating a menu; Summary; Chapter 4: Using CI to Simplify Databases; Configuration settings; Designing the database for our site; Active Record
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"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. 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"--Resource description page.