Introduction to CodeIgniter Ed Finkler • http://funkatron.com • @funkatron codeworks09
Thee Agenda Why CodeIgniter? The CI MVC Model CI Basics Running CI out of the box Making a basic web app Making a web api
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alternatewords/2332580309/ Why CodeIgniter?
Why not CakePHP or Zend Framework or Limonade or Symfony or Solar or Kohana or Zoop or Yii or Akelos or PHP on Trax or Prado or Seagull?
Because you've gotta pick one, dammit
All of them have value
That being said, CI is… Easy to understand Simple doesn't require advanced OOP Doesn't force lots of conventions Plays well with others Quick to get up and running Good docs and great community Backed by invested entity (http://ellislab.com)
CodeIgniter MVC Implementation
More like "Passive View Pattern" Controller View Model http://short.ie/5o7eg4
CI application flow Stolen from CI user guide
App components Front controller Helper Routing Plugin Security Scripts Controller View Model Caching Library
Front controller index.php
Routing http://domain.com/index.php/controller/method/param class Search extends Controller { public function single($id) { // [...] } }
Security Filtering or blocking unsafe input
Controller The core of everything <?php class Site extends Controller { "Heavy": you could do function Site() { parent::Controller(); everything in controller $this->load->library('session'); } public methods are function index() { available as actions from // mletters model is auto-loaded $rows = $this->mletters->getMany(10); URL $data['rows'] = $this->_prepData($rows); $this->load->view('index', $data); } private methods prefixed with “_” function _prepData($rows) { // do some cleanup on the data… } ?>
Model ActiveRecord pattern available, not required Query binding $sql = "SELECT * FROM some_table WHERE id = ? AND status = ? AND author = ?"; $this->db->query($sql, array(3, 'live', 'Rick')); Don't like the DB layer? Use something else Zend_DB, Doctrine, DataMapper (http://bit.ly/ datamapper), IgniteRecord (http://bit.ly/igrec) …
Library A class designed to work on related tasks
Helper Procedural funcs, grouped by file Mostly for views; available in controllers /** * Plural * * Takes a singular word and makes it plural * * @access public * @param string * @param bool * @return str */ function plural($str, $force = FALSE) { // [...] }
Plugin Single procedural function More extensive functionality than helper $vals = array( 'word' => 'Random word', 'img_path' => './captcha/', 'img_url' => 'http://example.com/captcha/', 'font_path' => './system/fonts/texb.ttf', 'img_width' => '150', 'img_height' => 30, 'expiration' => 7200 ); $cap = create_captcha($vals); echo $cap['image'];
Script Other scripts the CI app might use
View Build response to client CI Views are limited Uses plain PHP as templating lang <?php foreach ($rows as $row): ?> <li class="letter"> <div class="body"> <h3>Dear Zend,</h3> <p><?=$row->body?></p> </div> <div class="meta"> <div class="posted"> <a href="<?=site_url('/site/single/'.$row->id)?>">Posted <?=$row->posted?></a> </div> <div class="favorite">Liked by <?=$row->favorite_count?> person(s). <a href="<?=site_url('/site/favorite/'.$row->id)?>">I like this</a> </div> </div> </li> <?php endforeach ?>
View Optional template markup $this->load->library('parser'); <html> $this->parser->parse('blog_template', $data); <head> <title>{blog_title}</title> </head> <body> <h3>{blog_heading}</h3> {blog_entries} <h5>{title}</h5> Want a heavier template lang? <p>{body}</p> {/blog_entries} Use one. </body> </html>
Caching Saves response to file Serves up file contents if cache not expired
CI Basics http://www.flickr.com/photos/canoafurada/395304306/
CI File Layout front controller index.php points to system and application folders system application base classes & app-specific classes built-in functionality & functionality
CI File Layout default layout
CI File Layout custom layout only index.php is under document root
The CI Object $this inside controllers
The loader $this->load->{view|library|model|helper|etc}('name');
CI Out of the box
The Welcome App Put CI on the server Load it in the browser Why does Welcome load? How URLs map Trace with Xdebug/MacGDBp
Making a web application
Population estimates DB Get our data from Numbrary: http://short.ie/w3f6h3 Make a new controller Change the default route Config DB settings Make a model Make a view Make fancier views
Make a web API http://www.flickr.com/photos/dunechaser/2429621774/
Web API for pop. est. DB Let users query our DB via HTTP Return results on JSON or serialized PHP
Questions? http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadhorse/508559841/ @funkatron/#cw09 coj@funkatron.com
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