CodeIgniter 1.7. Improve your PHP coding productivity with the free compact open-source MVC CodeIgniter framework!

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• CodeIgniter 1.7
  • Table of Contents
  • CodeIgniter 1.7
  • Credits
  • About the Authors
  • About the Reviewer
  • Preface
    • What this book covers
    • What you need for this book
    • Who this book is for
    • Conventions
    • Reader feedback
    • Customer support
      • Downloading the example code for the book
      • Errata
      • Piracy
      • Questions
  • 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 doesnt do
    • Yes, butwhat is CodeIgniter? What are frameworks?
    • Comparing CI to other open source solutions (CakePHP and Joomla!)
      • What to choose
    • License
    • Summary
  • 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 directorybenefits
    • Summary
  • 3. Navigating Your Site
    • MVC: Model-View-Controller
      • But how does all this work?
        • The welcome controller
        • Working with views
        • The default controller
      • CodeIgniter 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 helperthe URL helper
        • A simple library examplecreating a menu
    • Summary
  • 4. Using CI to Simplify Databases
    • Configuration settings
    • Designing the database for our site
    • Active Record
      • Advantages of using the Active Record class
        • Saving 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
  • 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 helperentering data
      • Form helper advantage one: Clarity
      • Form helper advantage two: Automation
    • My 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
  • 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
  • 7. CodeIgniter and Objects
    • Object-oriented programming
      • The CI super-object
        • Copying by reference
        • Adding your own code to the CI super-object
        • Problems with the CI super-object
    • Summary
  • 8. Improving Our Application with Third-Party Code
    • Creating a helper
    • Creating a library
      • Sitemap
      • Explanation for My_Parser.php
      • Google charts plugin
    • Summary
  • 9. Using CI to Communicate
    • Using the FTP class to test remote files
    • Machines talking to machines again: XML-RPC
      • Getting the XML-RPC server and client in touch with each other
      • Formatting XML-RPC exchanges
      • Debugging
      • Issues with XML-RPC
    • Talking to humans for a changethe email class
    • Twitter
    • Summary
  • 10. How CI Helps to Provide Dynamic Information
    • The date helperconverting and localizing dates
      • The Calendar class
    • Working with textthe text helper
      • Going internationalthe Language class
    • Making HTML tables the easy waythe Table class
    • Caching pages
    • Summary
  • 11. Using CI to Handle Files and Images
    • The file helper
    • The download helper
    • The file upload class and CI's image class
    • CI's image class
    • Easy file compression with CI's zip class
    • Summary
  • 12. Moving Your Site to the WWW
    • Errors and error pages
    • So, should we update if a new version of CI comes out?
      • Steps/advice to follow when updating our CI version
    • Summary
  • 13. CRUDor Putting It All Together
    • Building our CRUD controller, model, and views
    • Upgrading our CRUD
      • Pagination class
      • Putting some order into our records
    • Summary
  • 14. The Verdict on CI
    • Organizing the files of our site
    • Organizing the logic of our site
      • A model
      • A controller
      • A view
    • Centralized configuration
    • Code conventions
    • Database tools
    • Simpler and more powerful code
    • Adding security to our site
    • Making our site more scalable and our code more reusable
    • Documentation and community
    • Summarizing all that CI offers
    • Summary
  • 15. Resources and Extensions
    • CI's user forums
      • Video tutorials
      • Available plugins and libraries
        • AJAX or JavaScript
        • Authentication
        • PDF generation
        • Comparisons: Which charting library to use?
        • HTML purifier
        • CRUDthe final frontier
    • Invoicing
    • Additional resources
      • Some books that could help
      • Resources for other programs: XAMPP Lite, MySQL, and PHP
    • Summary
  • A. Appendix
    • What we need to use the library
    • Adding products to the cart
    • Showing the cart to our clients
    • Summary
  • Index

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