About Codeigniter

CodeIgniter is an application development framework, which can be used to develop websites, using PHP. It is an Open Source framework. It has a very rich set of functionality, which will increase the speed of website development work.

CodeIgniter Features

Some of the important features of CodeIgniter are listed below −

• Model-View-Controller Based System
• Extremely Light Weight
• Full Featured database classes with support for several platforms.
• Query Builder Database Support
• Form and Data Validation
• Security and XSS Filtering
• Session Management
• Email Sending Class. Supports Attachments, HTML/Text email, multiple protocols (sendmail, SMTP, and Mail) and more.
• Image Manipulation Library (cropping, resizing, rotating, etc.). Supports GD, ImageMagick, and NetPBM
• File Uploading Class
• FTP Class
• Localization
• Pagination
• Data Encryption
• Benchmarking
• Full Page Caching
• Error Logging
• Application Profiling
• Calendaring Class
• User Agent Class
• Zip Encoding Class
• Template Engine Class
• Trackback Class
• XML-RPC Library
• Unit Testing Class
• Search-engine Friendly URLs
• Flexible URI Routing
• Support for Hooks and Class Extensions

• Large library of “helper” functions