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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
<script type="text/javascript" src="../nav/moo.fx.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function() {
- myHeight = new fx.Height('nav', {duration: 400});
+ myHeight = new fx.Height('nav', {duration: 400});
myHeight.hide();
}
</script>
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ What is Code Igniter?
<h2>Code Igniter is an Application Framework</h2>
-<p>Code Igniter is a toolkit for people who build web application using PHP. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code
+<p>Code Igniter is a toolkit for people who build web application 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. Code Igniter lets you creatively focus on your project by
+logical structure to access these libraries. Code Igniter lets you creatively focus on your project by
minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task.</p>
<h2>Code Igniter is Free</h2>
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ For more information please read the <a href="../license.html">license agreement
<h2>Code Igniter Runs on PHP 4</h2>
-<p>Code Igniter is written to be compatible with PHP 4. Although we would have loved to take advantage of the better object handling
-in PHP 5 since it would have simplified some things we had to find creative solutions for (looking your way, multiple inheritance),
-at the time of this writing PHP 5 is not in widespread use, which means we would be alienating most of our
+<p>Code Igniter is written to be compatible with PHP 4. Although we would have loved to take advantage of the better object handling
+in PHP 5 since it would have simplified some things we had to find creative solutions for (looking your way, multiple inheritance),
+at the time of this writing PHP 5 is not in widespread use, which means we would be alienating most of our
potential audience. Major OS vendors like RedHat have yet to support PHP 5, and they are unlikely to do so until 2007, so
we felt that it did not serve the best interests of the PHP community to write Code Igniter in PHP 5.</p>
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ 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>Code Igniter Generates Clean URLs</h2>
-<p>The URLs generated by Code Igniter are clean and search-engine friendly. Rather than using the standard "query string"
+<p>The URLs generated by Code Igniter are clean and search-engine friendly. Rather than using the standard "query string"
approach to URLs that is synonymous with dynamic systems, Code Igniter uses a segment-based approach:</p>
<code>www.your-site.com/<var>news</var>/<dfn>article</dfn>/<samp>345</samp></code>
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ approach to URLs that is synonymous with dynamic systems, Code Igniter uses a se
<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>Code Igniter Packs a Punch</h2>
-<p>Code Igniter comes with a very nice set of libraries that enable the most commonly needed web development tasks,
+<p>Code Igniter comes with a very nice set 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 more.</p>
<h2>Code Igniter is Extensible</h2>
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ like accessing a database, sending email, validating form data, maintaining sess
<h2>Code Igniter Does Not Require a Template Engine</h2>
<p>Although Code Igniter <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
+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>
<code>&lt;ul><br />
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ engine is usually only marginally easier than learning the basics of PHP. Consi
<code>&lt;ul><br />
<br />
-{foreach from=$addressbook item="name"}<br />
+{foreach from=$addressbook item="name"}<br />
<br />
&lt;li>{$name}&lt;/li><br />
<br />
@@ -141,13 +141,13 @@ engine is usually only marginally easier than learning the basics of PHP. Consi
<br />
&lt;/ul></code>
-<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
+<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>
<h2>Code Igniter is Thoroughly Documented</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,
+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>