CodeIgniter 1.7 -- Table of Contents -- CodeIgniter 1.7 -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewer -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code for the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to CodeIgniter -- What can CodeIgniter do for you? -- Save time -- Make your site more robust -- Keep your links up-to-date automatically -- Preventing database SQL injection attacks and form prepping -- Protect your site from XSS attacks -- Make your code bolder -- Send email attachments without hassles -- Save bandwidth by zipping files that users need to download -- What CI doesn't do -- Yes, but…what is CodeIgniter? What are frameworks? -- Comparing CI to other open source solutions (CakePHP and Joomla!) -- What to choose -- License -- Summary -- 2. Setting up a CodeIgniter Site -- Prerequisites -- Installing CodeIgniter -- Exploring the file structure -- Does it work?-checking our CI installation -- The configuration file -- Autoloading libraries, helpers, and so on -- Mod rewrite and apache .htaccess to achieve nice URL rewrites -- Moving the application directory and the system directory-benefits -- Summary -- 3. Navigating Your Site -- MVC: Model-View-Controller -- But how does all this work? -- The welcome controller -- Working with views -- The default controller -- CodeIgniter syntax rules -- Controller -- View -- Types of files or classes on a CI site -- Designing a better view -- Designing a better controller -- Getting parameters to a function -- Passing data to a view -- How CI classes pass information and control to each other -- Calling views -- Calling functions directly -- Interacting with controllers -- An example of a CI helper-the URL helper.

A simple library example-creating a menu -- Summary -- 4. Using CI to Simplify Databases -- Configuration settings -- Designing the database for our site -- Active Record -- Advantages of using the Active Record class -- Saving time -- Automatic functionality -- Read queries -- Displaying query results -- Create and update queries -- Delete queries -- Mixing Active Record and "classic" styles -- Dealing with complex queries -- Summary -- Chapter appendix: MySQL query to set up the website's database -- 5. Simplifying HTML Pages and Forms -- Writing a view -- Long and short PHP syntax and other CodeIgniter style guidelines -- File format -- PHP closing tag -- Nesting views -- Practical issues of site architecture -- CI's form helper-entering data -- Form helper advantage one: Clarity -- Form helper advantage two: Automation -- My display model -- CI's form validation class: Checking data easily -- Setting up validation -- Setting up the controller -- Setting up forms -- Let's pack it all together -- Summary -- 6. Simplifying Sessions and Security -- Continuing with our practical site using CI -- Moving around the site -- Security/Sessions: Using another CI library class -- Turning sessions into security -- But what about logout? -- Isn't there anything already built? -- Security -- Summary -- 7. CodeIgniter and Objects -- Object-oriented programming -- The CI super-object -- Copying by reference -- Adding your own code to the CI super-object -- Problems with the CI super-object -- Summary -- 8. Improving Our Application with Third-Party Code -- Creating a helper -- Creating a library -- Sitemap -- Explanation for My_Parser.php -- Google charts plugin -- Summary -- 9. Using CI to Communicate -- Using the FTP class to test remote files -- Machines talking to machines again: XML-RPC -- Getting the XML-RPC server and client in touch with each other.

Formatting XML-RPC exchanges -- Debugging -- Issues with XML-RPC -- Talking to humans for a change-the email class -- Twitter -- Summary -- 10. How CI Helps to Provide Dynamic Information -- The date helper-converting and localizing dates -- The Calendar class -- Working with text-the text helper -- Going international-the Language class -- Making HTML tables the easy way-the Table class -- Caching pages -- Summary -- 11. Using CI to Handle Files and Images -- The file helper -- The download helper -- The file upload class and CI's image class -- CI's image class -- Easy file compression with CI's zip class -- Summary -- 12. Moving Your Site to the WWW -- Errors and error pages -- So, should we update if a new version of CI comes out? -- Steps/advice to follow when updating our CI version -- Summary -- 13. CRUD-or Putting It All Together -- Building our CRUD controller, model, and views -- Upgrading our CRUD -- Pagination class -- Putting some order into our records -- Summary -- 14. The Verdict on CI -- Organizing the files of our site -- Organizing the logic of our site -- A model -- A controller -- A view -- Centralized configuration -- Code conventions -- Database tools -- Simpler and more powerful code -- Adding security to our site -- Making our site more scalable and our code more reusable -- Documentation and community -- Summarizing all that CI offers -- Summary -- 15. Resources and Extensions -- CI's user forums -- Video tutorials -- Available plugins and libraries -- AJAX or JavaScript -- Authentication -- PDF generation -- Comparisons: Which charting library to use? -- HTML purifier -- CRUD-the final frontier -- Invoicing -- Additional resources -- Some books that could help -- Resources for other programs: XAMPP Lite, MySQL, and PHP -- Summary -- A. Appendix -- What we need to use the library -- Adding products to the cart.

Showing the cart to our clients -- Summary -- Index.