From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
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CodeIgniter concepts and features
From the course: MVC Frameworks for Building PHP Web Applications
CodeIgniter concepts and features
- [Instructor] CodeIgniter is a lightweight MVC framework. One of the reasons CodeIgniter attracted a large number of developers in the early days was that it didn't require learning a complicated set of command line tools or a strict architecture. To structure your code, you simply use their mechanisms to handle the model, the view, the controller and routing, and it was up to you to determine how to organize and implement it. Installing CodeIgniter is pretty straightforward. You can either download a compressed two megabyte file or you can do a pull from GitHub. Either way, you're going to basically just extract the core framework to your web route and then you can develop from there. One of the criticisms has been that there's no out-of-the-box Composer support for CodeIgniter. There's not an official repository in packages so that you can install this simply using Composer. CodeIgniter is very straightfoward PHP implementation. As such, there's no command line interface so you're…
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