2. 1. What is CodeIgniter?
CodeIgniter is a powerful, proven,
agile & open web application
framework for to build dynamic
websites using PHP. CodeIgniter is
developed by EllisLab, Inc. And its
initial release is February 28, 2006.
We can find everything about
CodeIgniter from official website of
CodeIgniter:
http://www.ellislab.com/codeigniter.
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3. 1. What is CodeIgniter?
(Cont...)
CodeIgniter uses Model-View-
Controller (MVC) software pattern
to develop dynamic websites. This
framework provides rich set of
libraries for common tasks, so it
minimizes the amount of code. You
require nearly zero configuration
for CodeIgniter framework.
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4. 1. What is CodeIgniter?
(Cont...)
CodeIgniter is simple and well-
designed toolkit. It reduces complexity
of projects and make it simple. The
URLs generated by CodeIgniter are
understandable and search engine
friendly.
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5. 2. Why CodeIgniter?
There are following reasons for that
CodeIgniter is more popular:
CodeIgniter is free to use
Easy to install
Light weight
Extensive documentation and tutorial
Faster compare to other framework
Uses MVC approach
Flexible
Large community of users
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6. 2. Why CodeIgniter? (Cont…)
Also, CodeIgniter contains libraries
that enable the most commonly
needed web development tasks, like
sending email, validation of form,
accessing database, session
management, image manipulation,
and much more.
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7. 3. Features of CodeIgniter
Faster
Clean and search engine friendly URLs
MVC based programming
Extensible
Light weight
Full featured database classes
Form and data validation
Security and XSS filtering
Session management
Email sending class
Image manipulation
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8. 3. Features of CodeIgniter
(Cont…)
File uploading class
Pagination
Data encryption
Error logging
Calendar class
Template engine class
Unit testing class
Flexible URI routing
Support for Hooks and class extensions
Large library of "helper" functions
Supports PHP version 4 and lateral
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