The Form Helper file contains functions that assist in working with forms.

All of the available libraries are located in your system/libraries folder. In most cases, to use one of these classes involves initializing it within a controller using the following initialization ...

The Language Class provides functions to retrieve language files and lines of text for purposes of internationalization. You can create or incorporate your own ...

Helpers, as the name suggests, help you with tasks. Each helper file is simply a collection of functions in a particular category. There are URL Helpers, that assist in creating links, there are Form ...

CodeIgniter provides a comprehensive form validation and data prepping class that helps minimize the amount of code you'll write. Before explaining CodeIgniter's approach to data validation, let's ...

CodeIgniter gives you access to a Query Builder class. This pattern allows information to be retrieved, inserted, and updated in your database with minimal scripting. In some cases only one or two ...

Normally the second segment of the URL is reserved for the method name, but in the example above it instead has a product ID. To overcome this, CodeIgniter allows you ...

It pre-processes global input data for security. It provides some helper methods for fetching input data and pre-processing it.

The “auto connect” feature will load and instantiate the database class with every page load. To enable “auto connecting”, add the word database to the library array, as indicated in the following ...

CodeIgniter has a config file that lets you store your database connection values (username, password, database name, etc.). The config file is located at application ...

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