CodeIgniter and its varied libraries

2010-01-25T01:31:00.000-08:00

Today, in net world numerous great websites are constructed by applying PHP, for instance WordPress, Facebook, large parts of Wikipedia and Yahoo are built on the PHP development base.PHP is now 4th most popular in the world today.The cause of successness of PHP is because it open-source language and it has different Frameworks compatibility to serve in Rapid Application Development.There are diverse PHP development frameworks available, for example; CodeIgniter (CI), Zend, Symfony, CakePHP, and Yii.

At the starting of development without the framework we enjoyed the challenge but as the time gone we came to experience that the core code we have is most frequently reprocessed in most of the web sites, we made a number of content update tools, e-commerce custom solutions and also other applications for clients. Every time we developed the application we did not consider we would require to re-use the code, however we very oftentimes did and the core code was very look-alike.We begun analyzing our options and realized we needed to follow the MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. We settled on CodeIgniter!

The actual advantage of CodeIgniter is that it is easy to learn,have large number of libraries of pre-built modules,it is light on server and has large community support.In comparision with cake PHP it needs just 1.9MB whereas cakePHP needs 9MB.

Prebuilt libraries of modules and helpers of CodeIgniter helps to accelerate the development, for example libraries for managing ZIP downloads, premade project's form helpers to create forms, calendars, emails, a basic shopping cart,pagination, caching, FTP,encryption, a basic shopping cart etc.

In MVC framework different parts of a project can be developed seperately by different developers,it means multiple developers can work on same project at same time and project can be finished speedly.

For data management, the models are utilized in the CodeIgniter and for every database separate models are utilized.For managing the data, there are different functions in each model.For example, to retrive all data in particular class there is a function in the model or you can also retrive data for other combinations.ActiveRecord functions of CodeIgniter can be applied by model functions to skip on SQL altogether else if you like you can use raw SQL,there is also a alternative to use an object-relational mapping (ORM) library to abstract your data dealing work in case you're interested in having a floating DB Schema.

All user interaction is accomplished via views and our CodeIgniter developers create multiple views that are organized in folders for each controller. We apply jQuery, Dojo, etc javascript libraries to enhance the look and functionality of our code and can be integrated with CodeIgniter without any problem.

You might be thinking that it is complex and time consuming, but if you think in long term then it is far best. CodeIgniter forces us to think smart, and put things in their proper place.CodeIgniter make us to think smartly and to arrange things in their right place.CodeIgniter helps to arrange things in their right place and make us to think smartly.

Model - All data related features goes.

Views - Everything that the user views in the browser goes here.

Controller - Anything that is about application structure goes here.

Anything that relates to application structure or routes goes in the controller.

CodeIgniter developers are available on hire basis in our office for customized CodeIgniter Development solutions. CodeIgniter developers in our office will cost $10 per hour and if you want to hire on a monthly base, you would pay $1000 per month for a minimum of 21 days of work. We provide day-to-day reports, access to our managers for no charges, chats over Phone, Instant Messenger and email. With our quick turn around times and state of the art development practices, your web projects are in safe hands with NetTrackers CodeIgniter development team.

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