CodeIgniter Hosting

What is CodeIgniter?

CodeIgniter is a high powered PHP web application framework. CodeIgniter is both lightweight and user-friendly to develop with. The CodeIgniter framework vastly speeds up your web development by providing resourceful libraries for common, repetitive tasks. It is a great time-saving alternative to having to write your own code from scratch. In addition to the fact that CodeIgniter requires virtual no configuration, developers also love CodeIgniter’s speed and performance compared to a number of other notable PHP frameworks,

CodeIgniter was created and launched back in 2006 by Rick Ellis. It originated from Ellislab’s ExpressionEngine content management system basically like a library of refactored classes. Over the years, CodeIgniter beat the odds by growing to be an industry-leading framework in an environment that was flooded with competing solutions.

A few years later in 2009, Ellislab revamped its ExpressionEngine CMS by releasing version 2.0. ExpressionEngine was written with the CodeIgniter framework. CodeIgniter’s easy-to-use code made it possible for developers to write and release custom ExpressionEngine add-ons with ease.

In 2014, without the means to give CodeIgniter the attention it truly needed to help improve and grow, EllisLab agreed to allow CodeIgniter to continue to be developed by the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

CodeIgniter Features

CodeIgniter offers a number of developer-friendly features that have each helped it grow into the popular framework that it is today. Below is just a sampling of those features.

• CodeIgniter is a very lightweight and speedy framework
• It supports a number of databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
• Auto form validation
• Model-view-controller (MVC) system
• Extend framework functionality with libraries
• Smooth transition from procedural to object-oriented programming
• XSS filtering and security
• Search engine optimized URLs
• Session management

CodeIgniter Benefits

With all the above CodeIgniter features, it’s clear that there will be a number of benefits to using the framework. Here are just a few of the benefits that CodeIgniter users experience:

• Easy Customization – Even new CodeIgniter users find editing existing files to be extremely intuitive.
• Bug Tracking – CodeIgniter’s user-friendly interface means tracking down and handling errors is a breeze. It also helps that CodeIgniter has easily readable instructions and debug messages.
• Effective Validation Framework – Save time by writing code on a single line. The Effective validation framework makes it easier than ever to write your own code and avoid making errors.
• Performance – With its light footprint and high-performance optimizations, your applications and websites will run unbelievably faster.
• Versatile – CodeIgniter works with just about any relational database system so you can choose the one you’re most comfortable working with.

Many developers choose A2 Hosting for their CodeIgniter projects. While CodeIgniter is an excellent solution, there are a number of other frameworks that our finely tuned servers support. Just some of the other solutions that you may want to consider using at A2 Hosting include Laravel, Grails and CakePHP.