“The
new era web service applications are designed on a modern platform for
better accessibility and code integration: It is known as Model- View-
Design pattern or simply MVC. The same, we can find from PHP CodeIgniter
platform. As the name suggests, there are 3 components and they are
separated from each other by a virtual yet effective screen. It keeps
the View i.e. the user interface absolutely isolated from the core
logic. The View and the logic are controlled by an intermediate
Controller. The Model consist of the core logic, database and rules of
the application and it provides the relevant contents to the View i.e.
Browser after the instruction of the Controller. By this process, the
MVC architecture helps in keeping every aspect of the application safe
and secured and most importantly in a systematic manner. Let’s have a
glance over the CodeIgniter framework”.
Complete documentation for the user: Since,
CodeIgniter is a framework developed on the MVC architecture; there are
many components, libraries and functions available inside. In fact, the
Model designs itself cumbersome. So, it becomes difficult for a
developer to start writing code on the platform without any prior
knowledge or in-depth knowledge of its components. To make the things
easier CodeIgniter provides a complete documentation for all its
components and features. As a smart web developer, you should go through
each and every page of the documentation so as to make the best use of
the framework. The documentation works like a user guide and hence it is
extremely useful from the developer’s point of view. It has various
indexes like MVC basics, Routing basics, Form validation, Performance
improvement etc and these are extremely important in developing an
enterprise standard web solution. It is always recommended to learn the
documentation along with a corporate training for improved productivity
of the developer.
Installation will not take more time or effort: CodeIgniter
is a web application framework developed in PHP and enables PHP web
developers in building reliable yet faster web solutions without much
hassle. To getting started with CodeIgniter, one needs to install the
framework on the server. For the same, you need to download the software
and unzip the package from internet. Now you have to upload all the
folders and files to the server on which you are suppose to work on. You
can also use encryption or sessions by setting encryption key. The
process is very simple and it doesn’t require any hard effort from the
developer. Once you configure CodeIgniter you can start coding from the
index.php page.
Advanced features have made it to sustain in the industry for years: There
are many advanced and effective features that CodeIgniter possesses for
designing high quality web applications. The most important feature of
CodeIgniter is its MVC Architecture, which is extremely helpful in
creating complex web applications in less time and with more accuracy.
CodeIgniter is extremely light weight and hence it can help you
in building light weight web applications that will definitely load
faster on the browser especially when we are considering modern browsers
for smart phones and tablets etc. CodeIgniter has an inbuilt form and data validation feature that eliminates the unnecessary effort that is being given by the developer in other platforms. It has FTP class and File Uploading class for manipulation of files in the application server. The enhanced full page caching features can definitely help in improving the performance of the application and hence user experience. It has other features like Active Record Database Support, Session Management, Error logging and Calendaring class etc.
SEO with CodeIgniter: Search
engine optimisation is the most important feature of any web framework
and it is now a must for every framework. Just like other PHP frameworks
i.e., WordPress, Joomla etc, CodeIgniter also possess a search engine
optimisation tool to make the PHP website well visible on Google. The
search engine optimisation process starts with the title of the page and the search engine friendly URL. CodeIgniter has support for creating search engine friendly URLs along with other SEO features like key word density calculation, URL routing and SEO analysis etc.
The URL routing or rewriting technique helps in improving page ranking
in the search engine for better visibility of your website.
Ease of Use for CI developers:
A framework can’t sustain for a decade in the industry without any
potential. CodeIgniter has already proved its potential with awesome
features and of course easy to use developer interface. The developer
interface of CodeIgniter is extremely easy to understand i.e. a beginner
can start coding on the platform without much hassle. Different
components of the framework can easily be integrated to the application
for enhanced productivity. It has many templates available
for the CodeIgniter developer so that he can start developing web pages
easily with the templates that are already made available for the
developers.
Migration process is not a headache for you:
Migration is something used for the improvement of your application
with more optimised classes and data query. In web application
development process it is extremely important for any business to be up
to date with time in order to provide better customer support for your
service or product. In CodeIgniter, the developer is allowed to manage
his database schema for different environments and platform. The
developer needn’t to manually run the MySQL queries for this process
rather it can be done from within the platform itself. The best part is
that it also provides scope for the CodeIgniter developer to reverse or role back of the migration process if found any issues during the migration. With CodeIgniter you can track all the versions of your database changes just like versioning
of files as we use git i.e., we can go back or forward easily to a
different DB version as per our requirement and as when we need it.
Flexibility and customization is really a wonderful feature:
A framework is usually having some optional features that can be
achieved for your application with the integration of plug-ins, themes
etc. CodeIgniter developers
are allowed to integrate various open source plug-ins developed in PHP
or jQuery to make the website more feature loaded and attractive. A PHP
developer can customise his web application through different plug-ins
and components for enhanced user experience. On the other hand, it also
helps in extending the functionality of the application without any high
effort due to availability of source code from CodeIgniter expert
community.
Nevertheless
to say, CodeIgniter has an amazing track record of more than a decade
and how this is possible we can easily guess from above discussions.
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