Professional CodeIgniter

Contents

• Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World Introduction xv


• Chapter 2: Agile Methodologies and Approaches


• Chapter 3: A 10,000-Foot View of CodeIgniter


• Chapter 4: Creating the Main Web Site


• Chapter 5: Building a Shopping Cart


• Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard


• Chapter 7: Improving the Dashboard


• Chapter 8: Last-Minute Upgrades


• Chapter 9: Security and Performance


• Chapter 10: Launch


• Index


• Chapter 1: Welcome to the MVC World Introduction xv


• What’s Model-View-Controller?


• Why Bother with MVC?


• A Brief History of MVC


• Comparing PHP MVC Frameworks


• Making Life Easier for the Developer


• Models


• Views


• Helpers and Libraries


• Revisiting the Opening Example


• First Things First: The Model


• Creating the Controller


• Creating the View


• A Slightly Different Approach: Templates


• Modifying the Controller


• Modifying the View


• What about {bodycopy}?


• Conclusion


• Chapter 2: Agile Methodologies and Approaches


• What Is Agile?


• Post-Agilism


• Notable Agile Methodologies


• Scrum


• XP


• Modifying Scrum and XP


• Gather Your Requirements While You May


• The First Day


• Assimilating What You’ve Learned


• The Second Day


• Revisiting the Product Backlog


• Creating a Sprint Backlog


• Conclusion


• Chapter 3: A 10,000-Foot View of CodeIgniter x


• Downloading CodeIgniter


• CodeIgniter at a Glance


• The system/Folder


• The system/application Folder


• Initial Configuration


• config.php


• database.php


• autoload.php


• routes.php


• CodeIgniter Libraries


• The Database Library


• The Session Library


• CodeIgniter Helpers


• The Form Helper


• The URL Helper


• Creating Models, Views, and Controllers


• Models and Database Tables


• Controllers


• Views


• Uploading Your Files


• Conclusion


• Chapter 4: Creating the Main Web Site


• Displaying the Home Page


• Retrieving the Main Featured Product


• Retrieving Random Products for the Sidebar


• Using the New Model Functions on the Home Page


• Creating the Home Page View


• Displaying Product Categories


• Creating New Model Functions


• Building out the cat() Controller Function


• Creating the Category View


• Displaying Product Details


• Updating the MProducts Model


• Building the product() Controller Function


• Creating the Product View


• Displaying Search Results


• What about the Shopping Cart?


• Revisiting the Sprint Backlog


• Conclusion


• Chapter 5: Building a Shopping Cart xi


• Displaying the Shopping Cart


• First Things First


• Adding Products to a Shopping Cart


• Adding the View Cart Link to the Navigation


• Displaying the Shopping Cart to the User


• Adding a Delete Function to the Shopping Cart


• Revisiting the Sprint Backlog


• Meeting with Claudia


• Polishing the Look and Feel


• Uploading the Logo


• Updating the CSS


• Fixing the Header


• Fixing the Side Navigation


• Placing the Add to Cart Links


• Cleaning up Thumbnail and Text Positioning


• Conclusion


• Chapter 6: Creating a Dashboard


• Gathering Requirements


• Creating a Sprint Backlog


• Creating a Rudimentary Admin Framework


• Using Folders to Organize Controllers


• Creating the Login Mechanism


• Creating the Home Page of the Admin Panel


• Creating the Category Management Tools


• Creating the Product Management Tools


• Creating the User Management Tools


• Revisiting the Sprint Backlog


• Conclusion


• Chapter 7: Improving the Dashboard


• Batch Mode Operations


• Importing and Exporting


• Creating an Export Function for Categories


• Creating an Export Function for Products


• Importing a CSV Import Library for Products


• The Client Review


• Reassigning Products from Deleted Categories


• Reworking Colors and Sizes for Products xii


• Creating New Database Tables


• Deleting References to Legacy Colors and Sizes


• Creating New Models


• Creating Admin Screens for Colors


• Creating Admin Screens for Sizes


• Adding Color and Size Checkboxes to Products


• Displaying Color and Size Information on Public Pages


• Revisiting the Sprint Backlog


• Conclusion


• Chapter 8: Last-Minute Upgrades


• Meeting with the Client


• Creating a Page Manager


• Creating the Database Table


• Creating the Model


• Creating the Admin/Pages Controller


• Creating the Administrative Views


• Choosing and Integrating a WYSIWYG Editor


• Updating the Welcome Controller


• Creating a Newsletter Tool


• Creating the Database Table and Model


• Adding a subscribe() Function


• Creating the Form


• Creating Administrative Screens


• Meeting with the Client


• Conclusion


• Chapter 9: Security and Performance


• Security


• Filtering User Input


• Encrypting Sessions


• Additional Security Resources


• Performance


• Profiling


• Benchmarking


• Conclusion