Practical CodeIgniter 2 Projects: Building Real-World Apps with CodeIgnited

Today’s Web 2.0 is demanding more with less. CodeIgniter, an up–and–coming PHP–based Web application development framework that leaves a little footprint, rises to the challenge. Some say it’s the Merb, or micro Rails–like framework, of the PHP world.

CodeIgniter may be the most agile, lightweight of the PHP web frameworks, offerings exceptional performance in the applications you create with it. It requires zero configuration, has no templating language, does not require you to use command line, and has no restrictive coding rules nor large–scale monolithic libraries like PEAR. If you want something light and alternative to CakePHP, symfony, and Zend, this is it.

Practical CodeIgniter 2 Projects: Building Real–World Apps with CodeIgniter is a book written to help you advance your knowledge of CodeIgniter development and promote good, productive, and rapid coding techniques and project planning in the following ways:

• Gives you a direct route into application development
• Shows useful web application project examples that you can use as templates for your real–world Web 2.0 application development endeavors
• Provides a paced learning strategy that enhances your skills

This book guides you through the creation of four different web applications, teaching about general skills such as web authentication and more advanced techniques like Ajax. It aims to provide a grounding for you to be able to put into place your own projects and serves as a helpful resource for you to see examples put into place quickly.

You will learn the following:

• Immediately use CodeIgniter to create four pragmatic, real–world, web–driven PHP applications that have exceptional performance.
• Create a fully functional blogging application.
• Create a bulletin board system.
• Create a content management system (CMS).
• Build a simple e–commerce shopping cart application.
• Use third–party PHP web framework libraries to their full extent, as well as create your own CodeIgniter–based libraries to provide functions.
• Use and incorporate Ajax and web services, and find out why they are important in today’s Web 2.0 environment.

Web developers with good grounding in PHP looking for a “head–first” method into CodeIgniter.

The Practical series from Apress is your best choice for getting the job done, period. From professional to expert, this series lets you apply project–motivated templates (or frameworks) step by step in a very direct, practical, and efficient manner toward current real–world projects that may be sitting on your desk. So whatever your career goal, Apress can be your trusted guide to take you where you want to ...