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Installing CodeIgniter

Installing CodeIgniter

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Installing CodeIgniter

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- [Instructor] CodeIgniter is an open source web application framework, avaialable from codeigniter.com. To learn more about CodeIgniter, check out Learning PHP CodeIgniter, here in the online training library. There is an open source composer method for installing CodeIgniter, but it's not official. So I'm going to stick with the documented recommendations, which are basically to download and extract. We're ready to install CodeIgniter. Switch to the terminal, then change directory to /media/sf_sandbox. I'm going to use wget, along with an extra option flag, content-disposition, to download CodeIgniter using the filename from the webserver headers. It'll be from https://codeload.github.com/bcit-ci/ and then, using proper capitalization, CodeIgniter/zip/3.1.4. Once the download completes, unzip the archive. CodeIgniter-3.1.4.zip. The file is extracted, by default, to a directory called CodeIgniter-3.1.4, lets' rename it to something more logical. So we're going to mv CodeIgniter-3.1.4…

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