CodeIgniter 1.7 Professional Development
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Getting Started with CodeIgniter
- Getting Started with CodeIgniter
- Upgrading from older versions of CodeIgniter
- Downloading and installing CodeIgniter
- Introducing Model View Controller (MVC)
- Controllers: The business logic
- Models: Data abstraction layer
- Views: Your template files
- Autoloading resources
- Formatting your code—PHP Style Guide
- CodeIgniter URLs
- CodeIgniter specific files
- Summary
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Learning the Libraries
- Learning the Libraries
- What is a library?
- What do libraries do?
- Benchmarking Class
- Input and Security Class
- Email Class
- File Uploading Class
- Image Manipulation Library
- Pagination Class
- Session Class
- Unit testing a class
- Summary
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Form Validation and Database Interaction
- Form Validation and Database Interaction
- Why should I validate my forms?
- Using the Form Validation Library
- Saving sets of validation rules to a config file
- Using callbacks
- Database interaction
- Performing simple queries
- Returning values
- Result helper functions
- Active Record
- Active Record caching
- Method chaining
- Manipulating databases with Database Forge
- Summary
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User Authentication 1
- User Authentication 1
- Defining our goals
- Creating and connecting to the database
- Front end code
- Model code
- Addressing some issues
- The Authentication Library
- Summary
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User Authentication 2
- User Authentication 2
- Using Twitter oAuth
- Using Facebook Connect
- Summary
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Application Security
- Application Security
- CodeIgniter's defenses
- Strong password policies
- Storing passwords securely
- Database security
- Cross-site scripting (XSS)
- Changing the default file structure
- Staying up-to-date
- Summary
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Building a Large-Scale Application
- Building a Large-Scale Application
- Running benchmarks
- Caching
- Optimize SQL queries
- Avoid disk activity
- Run multiple application instances
- Summary
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Web Services
- Web Services
- What is a web service?
- Types of web service
- RESTful web service
- Create a new post
- Update a post
- Delete a post
- Get a blog post
- Summary
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Extending CodeIgniter
- Extending CodeIgniter
- Hooks
- Extended controllers
- Extended libraries
- Custom libraries
- Helpers
- CodeIgniter's hidden gems
- Summary
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Developing and Releasing Code to the Community
- Developing and Releasing Code to the Community
- Find a need in the community (or fill your own need)
- Search for existing solutions
- Create a plan
- Writing the library
- Write a user guide
- Release options
- Handling database tables
- Supporting the code
- Summary