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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> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-is-free"> +<h2>CodeIgniter is Free<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-is-free" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>CodeIgniter is licensed under the MIT license so you can use it however +you please. 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We challenge you to find a framework that has better +performance than CodeIgniter.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-uses-m-v-c"> +<h2>CodeIgniter Uses M-V-C<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-uses-m-v-c" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>CodeIgniter uses the Model-View-Controller approach, which allows great +separation between logic and presentation. This is particularly good for +projects in which designers are working with your template files, as the +code these files contain will be minimized. We describe MVC in more +detail on its own page.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-generates-clean-urls"> +<h2>CodeIgniter Generates Clean URLs<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-generates-clean-urls" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<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> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nx">example</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="nx">com</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nx">news</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="nx">article</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="mi">345</span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<div class="admonition note"> +<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p> +<p class="last">By default the <em>index.php</em> file is included in the URL but it can +be removed using a simple <em>.htaccess</em> file.</p> +</div> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-packs-a-punch"> +<h2>CodeIgniter Packs a Punch<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-packs-a-punch" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<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> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-is-extensible"> +<h2>CodeIgniter is Extensible<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-is-extensible" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<p>The system can be easily extended through the use of your own libraries, +helpers, or through class extensions or system hooks.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-does-not-require-a-template-engine"> +<h2>CodeIgniter Does Not Require a Template Engine<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-does-not-require-a-template-engine" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<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> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o"><</span><span class="nx">ul</span><span class="o">></span> +<span class="o"><?</span><span class="nx">php</span> <span class="k">foreach</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="nv">$addressbook</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nv">$name</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">:</span><span class="cp">?></span> + <span class="p"><</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span><span class="cp"><?</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="cp">?></span><span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">></span> +<span class="cp"><?php</span> <span class="k">endforeach</span><span class="p">;</span> <span class="cp">?></span> +<span class="p"></</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">></span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>Contrast this with the pseudo-code used by a template engine:</p> +<div class="highlight-ci"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="o"><</span><span class="nx">ul</span><span class="o">></span> +<span class="p">{</span><span class="k">foreach</span> <span class="nx">from</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="nv">$addressbook</span> <span class="nx">item</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s2">"name"</span><span class="p">}</span> + <span class="o"><</span><span class="nx">li</span><span class="o">></span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nv">$name</span><span class="p">}</span><span class="o"></</span><span class="nx">li</span><span class="o">></span> +<span class="p">{</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="k">foreach</span><span class="p">}</span> +<span class="o"></</span><span class="nx">ul</span><span class="o">></span> +</pre></div> +</div> +<p>Yes, the template engine example is a bit cleaner, but it comes at the +price of performance, as the pseudo-code must be converted back into PHP +to run. Since one of our goals is <em>maximum performance</em>, we opted to not +require the use of a template engine.</p> +</div> +<div class="section" id="codeigniter-is-thoroughly-documented"> +<h2>CodeIgniter is Thoroughly Documented<a class="headerlink" href="#codeigniter-is-thoroughly-documented" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> +<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. 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