Learn how to build fully-featured web applications with the most popular lightweight PHP MVC framework
What you'll learn
- How to install and configure CodeIgniter locally
- How an MVC framework like CodeIgniter differs from "plain" PHP
- Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) for database records
- User registration with account activation by email
- Login with remember me, and requiring login to access content
- User-initiated password reset by email
- Uploading and processing images
- Handling Ajax requests and returning JSON
- Styling using a CSS framework
- Internationalization: displaying content in more than one language
- Securely deploying an application to shared hosting
- Support directly from the instructor: any question asked in the Q&A section will always get a response
Requirements
- You need to know PHP, including the basics of classes and objects, and how to work with a database
- Ideally have a web server with PHP and Composer installed, but a brief overview of installing these will be covered
- Be happy to install software and run basic commands on the command line
Description
CodeIgniter 4 is a modern, fast, lightweight, PHP MVC framework that allows you to build secure applications quickly and easily. It's simple to install and use, and works well on shared hosting. CodeIgniter provides a rich set of libraries for common tasks, which lets you focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code you need to write.
Learn how to develop PHP applications with CodeIgniter in this Comprehensive Course.
- How to quickly install and configure the framework
- Learn how to separate presentation code from application code
- How to do CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations
- Signup: User account registration
- Authentication: login with remember me
- User administration with administrator users
- Account activation by email
- User-initiated password reset
- File uploads and image processing
- Ajax requests and JSON
- Styling using a CSS framework
- Internationalization: displaying content in more than one language
- Deployment: installing the application on shared hosting
Developing PHP web applications is faster if you use a framework. There are many available frameworks, but some require a lot of configuration to get started, and need a powerful server to run. CodeIgniter is a lightweight but powerful framework, that's easy to install, and works well on shared hosting. On this course, we'll start from scratch, starting with installing the framework, through developing a complete web application, to ultimately installing it on a live server.
Content and Overview
This course is designed for the PHP developer who wants to learn the CodeIgniter framework in depth. I designed the course to be easily understood by PHP developers who have no previous experience of a framework, and who want to develop full, feature-rich applications quickly and easily. Learning the techniques on this course will enable to you write web applications using CodeIgniter faster than you would be able to do in plain PHP.
- Suitable for all PHP developers, you'll start by learning the basics of the CodeIgniter framework.
- You'll learn how the framework is organised, and how to work efficiently with it.
- We'll build a full web application from scratch, with each concept explained in detail at every stage.
- Throughout the course, we'll build code that you can reuse in all your projects.
- All the source code developed in the lectures is available to download.
- All the time we'll adhere to industry standards and best practices.
Complete with all the code shown in the lectures, you'll be able to work alongside the instructor and will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
Also, at all times throughout the course you have access to the instructor in the Q&A section to ask for help with any topic related to the course.
Enrol now and become a master of the most popular lightweight PHP MVC framework!
Who this course is for:
- PHP developers who want to learn a lightweight but powerful framework to develop applications faster
- PHP developers who want to use a framework that's simpler than Laravel
