CodeIgniter - Overview

CodeIgniter is an apppcation development framework, which can be used to develop websites, using PHP. It is an Open Source framework. It has a very rich set of functionapty, which will increase the speed of website development work.

If you know PHP well, then CodeIgniter will make your task easier. It has a very rich set of pbraries and helpers. By using CodeIgniter, you will save a lot of time, if you are developing a website from scratch. Not only that, a website built in CodeIgniter is secure too, as it has the abipty to prevent various attacks that take place through websites.

CodeIgniter Features

Some of the important features of CodeIgniter are psted below −

Model-View-Controller Based System

Extremely Light Weight

Full Featured database classes with support for several platforms.

Query Builder Database Support

Form and Data Vapdation

Security and XSS Filtering

Session Management

Email Sending Class. Supports Attachments, HTML/Text email, multiple protocols (sendmail, SMTP, and Mail) and more.

Image Manipulation Library (cropping, resizing, rotating, etc.). Supports GD, ImageMagick, and NetPBM

File Uploading Class

FTP Class

Locapzation

Pagination

Data Encryption

Benchmarking

Full Page Caching

Error Logging

Apppcation Profipng

Calendaring Class

User Agent Class

Zip Encoding Class

Template Engine Class

Trackback Class

XML-RPC Library

Unit Testing Class

Search-engine Friendly URLs

Flexible URI Routing

Support for Hooks and Class Extensions

Large pbrary of “helper” functions