CodeIgniter 2 Cookbook

Chapter 2. User Management

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Viewing users
• Creating users
• Editing users
• Deleting users
• Generating passwords with CodeIgniter
• Generating passwords with CodeIgniter – the bare bones
• Forgot password? – resetting passwords with CodeIgniter

Introduction

Chances are that a lot of the sites and apps you'll build with CodeIgniter will need users, and there will be a need to manage them and their details directly, that is create, update, edit, and delete them.

In this chapter, we'll look at basic user management and, build a simple CRUD interface to manage and maintain those users in a database. Later, in Chapter 7, Creating a Secure User Environment, we will be looking at securing your user information with login and session functionality, ...