Toby Beresford Ci Overview

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CodeIgniter PHP

Framework

Toby Beresford

[email protected]


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Content

Bio

Benefits

Why Frameworks MVC

Demo

Links


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Toby Bio

12 years professional Web App Development 5 years - Lotus Domino 7 years - PHP

Toby Beresford Applications Ltd

Platform applications Facebook Bebo, Myspace et al.

Clients Sky News, Last.fm, Comic Relief, VideoJug, AfffiliateWindow,

.name registry.

[email protected]

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Benefits of CI

Small

Fast

Simple

Customer ready a sys admin can install the CI framework in a few minutes great documentation means easy hand over: new developers

just learn the framework not your home grown MVC code

Great for mash-up apps using multiple platforms eg. Facebook apps

Cleaner code
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Why FrameworksNo framework

Framework

Me and my framework

Framework

Platform API

Me, my framework and

a Platform API
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MVCView (views/frog_count.php)

Youve items in list

Controller (controllers/my_controller.php)

function total_frogs () {$this->load->model(frogs);$number_of_frogs = $this->frogs->count_frogs();$data[froggies] = $number_of_frogs;$this->load->view(frog_view, $data);

}Model (models/frogs.php)function count_frogs() {

$this->db->where(type,frog);$this->db->from(animals);

$query = $this->db->get();Return $query->num_rows();

Model

View

Controller
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How to run a CI method

http://www.my_server.com/index.php/my_controller/my_frog

Where youve installed CI

Your main controller file:System/application/controllers/my_controller.php

The name of a method in your controller
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Download fromwww.codeigniter.com


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Upload to your server


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See the welcome screen


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Create your database


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Configure CodeIgniter BaseURL


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Configure DatabaseConnection


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Create a controller


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Add the view


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Try it


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Send variables to the view viaan array

VIEW

CONTROLLER


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And


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Model: Get item

Uses ActiveRecord


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Model: Put Item


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Model: Get all


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Model: Delete Item


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Controller: Add


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View: Add/Edit


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User Interface: Add


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Controller: Save


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Controller: Edit


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User Interface: Edit


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Controller: List all


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Views: List

Note we can use ordinary PHP in the views, no templatelanguage to learn


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User Interface: List


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Controller: Delete


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Views: Delete Confirm


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User Interface: Delete


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Summary

CI is fast to run, light to deploy andeasy to learn

Great for mash-up applications in theplatform world

Wishlist = Eg. AffiliateWindow retailerlist API, product API, Facebook UI,

Facebook User tables, + PayPal masspay for commissions


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Useful links www.codeigniter.com

User manual, community forums,releases

www.kohanaphp.com PHP5 CodeIgniter fork

www.phpframeworks.info All the frameworks side by side

www.people4web2.com Search engine optimised contractor

site with a skills category for themajor PHP Frameworks

LondonGarage06.eventbrite.com Facebook Developer Garage 5th

March

Q ti ?
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