Codeigniter part 1

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Submitted by Morteza_ipo (Contact Author) (Forums) on Sat, 2012-05-12 18:36. :: PHP | PHP
Hello everyone.
Today I want to learn Codeigniter MVC.
Codeigniter is a light and highspeed MVC that created under the Elislab company.
That is free of charge.
First step download the Codeigniter from official site : www.codeigniter.com
Unzip that in the www directory.
When you run that at the first time you see the welcome page with some text.
In the Codeigniter we have working with 3 directories that is in the application directory.
The directoies names is: Controller , Model and View.
In the controller we should to write low level code like connecting to database and etc.
In the Model we could write validating inputs , text proccessing , connecting to database and etc.
And in the View directory with should to write the view code that users can see.
For starting writing code , we can use IDE or editor for managing code easily.
I prefer to use Notepad++. that's so light and good for me.
You can choice that or Netbeans or Aptana or other IDE/Editors.
In the Controller the name of class should be name of file.
example: if my file name is 'Home' , my class name should be 'Home'.
The Codeigniter works with this style:
http://host_name/index.php/class/function/input1/input2/....
The class should make extends from CI_Controller. In the older version we was making extends from Controller.
For starting make a new file with 'Blog.php' name in the Controller.In that create a new class like below code:
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller
{
....
}
?>
In the class , we have some definition functions.If we make index function , that run at the first of runnig.
What I want to say?
If I call the Blog class via http://localhost/index.php/blog , it calls the index function if it have!
And If I call http://localhost/index.php/blog/home , it don't calls the index function!
Try this code:
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller
{
function index()
{
echo "Here is root of the class";
}
function home()
{
echo "Here we are at the home function";
}
}
?>
If you go to http://localhost/index.php/blog or http://localhost/index.php/blog/index , you see "Here is root of the class".
But if you go to http://localhost/index.php/blog/home , you see "Here we are at the home function".
Attention: if your class haven't any index function , if you call the class with this address : http://localhost/index.php/blog , you will see error!
Then make index function at the first step!
Now I want to make relation between Controller and View.
Create a new file in View directory with blog_view.php name. this name is not important!
in the home function in the Blog controller:
<?php
class Blog extends CI_Controller
{
function index()
{
....
}
function home()
{
$this->load->view('blog_view');
}
}
?>
And in the blog_view.php:
<html>
<head>
<title>Blogs part</title>
</head>
<body>
Welcome to the blogs part.
</body>
</html>
You saw $this->load->view(view file name). By this command we said to the Codeigniter , do show the file that name is in between parenthesis.
Or we can send some value to view via the second argument of that.how?
<?php
.....
function home()
{
    $data['title'] = 'Blogs title';
    $data['body'] = 'Here We are ;)';
    $this->load->view('blog_view',$data);
  }
?>
And in the blog_view.php:
<html>
<head>
<title><?php echo $title; ?></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo $body; ?>
</body>
</html>
The name of variables is not important! Just you should call they in the view!
You can send array to view.
<?php
...
$data['name'] = array('name' => 'Morteza','family' => 'Ipo')
...
?>
And in the view try it with print_r:
<html>
...
...
<body>
<?php print_r($name); ?>
</body>
</html>
End of part 1.

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