Clearly, structured tutorial on working with CodeIgniter careful explanation of the basic concepts of CodeIgniter and MVC architecture Using CodeIgniter with databases, HTML forms, files, images, sessions, and email Build a dynamic website quickly and easily using CodeIgniter's prepared code In Detail CodeIgniter (CI) is a powerful open-source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. CodeIgniter is an MVC framework, similar in some ways to the Rails framework for Ruby, and is designed to enable, not overwhelm. This book explains how to work with CodeIgniter in a clear logical way. This is not a complete guide to the syntax of CodeIgniter, but makes an ideal to complement the existing online CodeIgniter user guide, helping you understand the bigger picture and bringing together many ideas to get your application development started as smoothly as possible. What you will learn from this book? Setting up the CI package on your Web server Understand the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for organizing a dynamic website Understanding the structure of the site CI Designing a better view and control aspects of CI Integrating object-oriented databases such as MySQL and simplifying your database access Make your site more robust and professional by using CI's built-in classes Create and validate HTML forms with CI form helpers Handling of files, images, and sessions with CI Sending email from CI Using CI for testing your code with error handling, unit testing, benchmarking, and profiling Getting XML-RPC server and client work Generating Create, Update, Delete, and Read (CRUD) entries on each database table Approach This book steps you through the main features of CodeIgniter in a systematic way, explaining clearly with illustrative code examples.