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Starting with CodeIgniter : Hello World App.

CodeIgniter is an open source web application framework built for PHP coders who want to develop a full-feature web application. It has libraries which help us to perform many tasks very easily. It works on the MVC Pattern.


Model–View–Controller (MVC) is a design pattern for computer user interfaces that divides an application into three areas of responsibility:
  1. the Model : the data structures that represent the application's state.
  2. the View : which observes the state and generates output to the users.
  3. the Controller : which translates user input into operations on the model.


Today I will be telling you how to start with CodeIgniter and the MVC Pattern. The example we will be taking is a basic Hello World Application. For this I will be using XAMPP Server, Eclipse/Netbeans (more Preferred) or any IDE and CodeIgniter 2.1.0. 

To download XAMPP SERVER, Click Here.
To download Netbeans (with PHP support), Click Here. 
To download CodeIgniter Framework, Click Here.

Lets Start 


Open Netbeans, follow the steps :

* Click File -> New Project -> PHP -> PHP Application. And click next.
* Now change Project name (as HelloWorld) and the Source Folder to Xampp/htdocs/. Check the image below.


And after doing the above i.e. Giving Appt. Project name and finding the Xampp/htdocs/helloworld folder.

Click on next and then copy the line, http://localhost/your-project-name.

Now go to the unzipped CodeIgniter Folder and copy everything inside it and paste it to Xampp/htdocs/helloworld.

After that is done, go to  netbeans and click on source and then open Application -> config.

Inside config.php change 
$config['base_url'] = '';  TO

$config['base_url'] = 'http://localhost/your-project-name'; 

Now open application -> Controller and create a new php file in that, name it hello.php :

Hello.php :


<?php

class Hello extends CI_Controller {

    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function index(){
        $this->load->view('helloworld');
    }
}

?>

Next step, make a view. Create helloworld.php within application\views. 

helloworld.php :


 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Hello World App</title>
</head>
<body>

    <h1>Hello World!</h1>

    <div >
        <p>My First CodeIgniter Application.
    </div>

</body>
</html>

But before that, goto application -> config ->routes.php. Inside routes.php change the 

 $route['default_controller'] = "hello";

 Now start Xampp server, in that start Apache Server. And then goto netbeans and run the project. 

 The application will run and the browser will display, 

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5 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 21, 2015 at 5:48 AM

    Great Post, Actually PHP is a beautiful source for developing a database driven web application, I love this post, thanks for spending your time for discussing about this topic.
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  2. Er.Lalit Kumar DubeyFebruary 24, 2016 at 9:41 PM

    ya it's best for start..

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  3. AnonymousOctober 3, 2016 at 12:28 AM

    http://ng4free.com/codeigniter-tutorial-hello-world-example-steps/

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 27, 2017 at 2:04 AM

    please let me know how to run a project in codeigniter step by step.

    i need to know the url that should be typed in the search bar.

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  5. UnknownAugust 10, 2017 at 6:23 AM

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