CHAPTER 24

Images

CodeIgniter: Extending

CodeIgniter includes a wide assortment of libraries that cater to details such as file uploads, image manipulation, and e-mail sending. Let us see how to use these, as well as extend CodeIgniter to use third-party libraries.

Goals

  • We need to learn how to use built-in CodeIgniter libraries.
  • We need to learn how to include our own (third-party) libraries in our CodeIgniter applications.
  • We need to learn how to extend core CodeIgniter classes.

File Uploads

We will begin by looking at how to use one of the built-in CodeIgniter libraries for file uploads. Our original sample application allows the user to upload ...

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