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author | Derek Jones <derek.jones@ellislab.com> | 2011-07-02 00:54:49 +0200 |
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committer | Derek Jones <derek.jones@ellislab.com> | 2011-07-02 00:54:49 +0200 |
commit | 8f371a4954ec84f9ea80c26e654a4793714f8a07 (patch) | |
tree | 912d83e6e2adbe136d892f0a41ea1730dc11206a /user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html | |
parent | 806b82448ddccece1311228519dc1410dacd0971 (diff) | |
parent | 4b9c62980599228f070b401c7673dce8085b0c61 (diff) |
hand merged remaining unresolved files following the backout of 648b42a75739, which was a NON-trivial whitespace commit
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diff --git a/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html b/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html index 1175e7f42..b6b81d760 100644 --- a/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html +++ b/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ What is CodeIgniter? <h2>CodeIgniter is an Application Framework</h2> -<p>CodeIgniter is a toolkit for people who build web applications using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code +<p>CodeIgniter is a toolkit for people who build web applications using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.</p> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.</p> For more information please read the <a href="../license.html">license agreement</a>.</p> <h2>CodeIgniter is Light Weight</h2> -<p>Truly light weight. The core system requires only a few very small libraries. This is in stark contrast to many frameworks that require significantly more resources. +<p>Truly light weight. The core system requires only a few very small libraries. This is in stark contrast to many frameworks that require significantly more resources. Additional libraries are loaded dynamically upon request, based on your needs for a given process, so the base system is very lean and quite fast. </p> @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ is very lean and quite fast. This is particularly good for projects in which designers are working with your template files, as the code these file contain will be minimized. We describe MVC in more detail on its own page.</p> <h2>CodeIgniter Generates Clean URLs</h2> -<p>The URLs generated by CodeIgniter are clean and search-engine friendly. Rather than using the standard "query string" +<p>The URLs generated by CodeIgniter are clean and search-engine friendly. Rather than using the standard "query string" approach to URLs that is synonymous with dynamic systems, CodeIgniter uses a segment-based approach:</p> <code>example.com/<var>news</var>/<dfn>article</dfn>/<samp>345</samp></code> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ approach to URLs that is synonymous with dynamic systems, CodeIgniter uses a seg <p>Note: By default the index.php file is included in the URL but it can be removed using a simple .htaccess file.</p> <h2>CodeIgniter Packs a Punch</h2> -<p>CodeIgniter comes with full-range of libraries that enable the most commonly needed web development tasks, +<p>CodeIgniter comes with full-range of libraries that enable the most commonly needed web development tasks, like accessing a database, sending email, validating form data, maintaining sessions, manipulating images, working with XML-RPC data and much more.</p> @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ much more.</p> <p>Although CodeIgniter <em>does</em> come with a simple template parser that can be optionally used, it does not force you to use one. Template engines simply can not match the performance of native PHP, and the syntax that must be learned to use a template -engine is usually only marginally easier than learning the basics of PHP. Consider this block of PHP code:</p> +engine is usually only marginally easier than learning the basics of PHP. Consider this block of PHP code:</p> <code><ul><br /> <br /> @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ back into PHP to run. Since one of our goals is <em>maximum performance</em>, we <h2>CodeIgniter is Thoroughly Documented</h2> -<p>Programmers love to code and hate to write documentation. We're no different, of course, but +<p>Programmers love to code and hate to write documentation. We're no different, of course, but since documentation is <strong>as important</strong> as the code itself, we are committed to doing it. Our source code is extremely clean and well commented as well.</p> |