CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework
based on the Model-View-Controller development pattern
Download page:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter
Documentation page:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/toc.html
1) Download CodeIgniter_2.1.4.zip and unzip to
C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\codeigniter\
note I installed XAMPP under C:\xampp
2) Run
http://localhost/xampp/codeigniter/
welcome page should appear.
3) Create test.php under
application/controller
run
http://localhost/xampp/codeigniter/index.php/test
4) configure database\application\config\database.php
In mycase, conect to localhost test database with root and no password
$db['default']['hostname'] = 'localhost';
$db['default']['username'] = 'root';
$db['default']['password'] = '';
$db['default']['database'] = 'test';
Example code:
5) controller test.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\codeigniter\application\controllers\test.php
<?php
class Test extends CI_Controller {
public function index() {
$data = array();
$this->load->model('Users');
$user = new Users();
$user->setUsername("jiansen");
$user->setPassword("pass1");
$data['message']= $user->login();
echo '<tt><pre>' . $data['message'] . '</pre></tt>';
//$this->load->view('magazines');
echo '<h2>This is a test</h2>';
$this->load->view('test',$data);
}
}
?>
6) model users.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\codeigniter\application\models\users.php
<?php
Class Users extends CI_Model
{
private $_username;
private $_password;
function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
}
public function setUsername($value)
{
$this->_username = $value;
}
public function setPassword($value)
{
$this->_password = $value;
}
public function login()
{
$this->load->database();
$username = $this->_username;
$password = $this->_password;
$this -> db -> select('id, username, password');
$this -> db -> from('users');
$this -> db -> where('username', $username);
$this -> db -> where('password', $password);
$query = $this -> db -> get();
if($query -> num_rows() == 1)
{
return "user name and pasword matched";
}
else
{
return "user name and pasword not matched";
}
}
}
?>
7) view test.php
C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp\codeigniter\application\views\test.php
<?php
echo "from view ".$message;
?>
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