Introduction
I've been playing around with CodeIgniter as my PHP web framework for a while now and I would like to share my simple steps in getting started with the tool. I think it's maybe too late to post this one up on the internet as there are lots of articles describing the said tool. But anyway, I'll just post this one so that I have some reference in the future how I did things to work with CodeIgniter.
CodeIgniter is a simple, light and fast web framework.
And web frameworks are encapsulation of the repetitive tasks we do when developing a website. One of the many important issue solved by this framework is maintenance. We get to have our code separated so that we have proper maintenance of our site. When I say separation of code, it's a conceptual thing. Web framework, most if not all, are implementation of the MVC pattern where we separate logic from presentation. It's model and view respectively. And CodeIgniter does that with ease.
Let me demonstrate. Mostly we do have actions as our PHP scripts, i.e. listcustomers.php to list all our customers. And we have code inside like so:
For some simple sites this works but imagine we'll have other scripts that does similar to this like listvendors.php, listitems.php. I'd imagine we'll separate the part where the connection is and include it in all of these scripts. Yes it solves the problem.
Download and Install
You need to have a web server and a PHP interpreter to run PHP and optionally we can install MySQL. I know these are lots but need not to worry. There's XAMPP to help us. Download and install XAMP and we've got all three working and ready to use.
Visit CodeIgniter website to download the said package. Assuming we put XAMPP to C:\xampp, we can unzip the package to C:\xampp\htdocs\codeigniter and that's it. We can now access the page through our browser. Open up your browser of choice and go to http://localhost/codeigniter/. Voila! We have a codeigniter website up and running.
I've been playing around with CodeIgniter as my PHP web framework for a while now and I would like to share my simple steps in getting started with the tool. I think it's maybe too late to post this one up on the internet as there are lots of articles describing the said tool. But anyway, I'll just post this one so that I have some reference in the future how I did things to work with CodeIgniter.
CodeIgniter is a simple, light and fast web framework.
And web frameworks are encapsulation of the repetitive tasks we do when developing a website. One of the many important issue solved by this framework is maintenance. We get to have our code separated so that we have proper maintenance of our site. When I say separation of code, it's a conceptual thing. Web framework, most if not all, are implementation of the MVC pattern where we separate logic from presentation. It's model and view respectively. And CodeIgniter does that with ease.
Let me demonstrate. Mostly we do have actions as our PHP scripts, i.e. listcustomers.php to list all our customers. And we have code inside like so:
For some simple sites this works but imagine we'll have other scripts that does similar to this like listvendors.php, listitems.php. I'd imagine we'll separate the part where the connection is and include it in all of these scripts. Yes it solves the problem.
Download and Install
You need to have a web server and a PHP interpreter to run PHP and optionally we can install MySQL. I know these are lots but need not to worry. There's XAMPP to help us. Download and install XAMP and we've got all three working and ready to use.
Visit CodeIgniter website to download the said package. Assuming we put XAMPP to C:\xampp, we can unzip the package to C:\xampp\htdocs\codeigniter and that's it. We can now access the page through our browser. Open up your browser of choice and go to http://localhost/codeigniter/. Voila! We have a codeigniter website up and running.
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