Articles In: CodeIgniter

 With CodeIgniter already offering a superb way of structuring your applications, some you just feel that you need to take things one step further to give your application that higher level of clarity, i.e. breaking your applications into modules.

While waiting for a future version of CodeIgniter to natively include modules, you could look at 3 extensions that currently allow you to spilt your application into modules.  These are Matchbox, HMVC and Modular Separation.

In this tutorial, we will be looking at how to use Adobe Spry with CodeIgniter.  There have been several tutorials shows you how to use CodeIgniter with other JavaScript frameworks but none really have touched on Spry.  So I hope this will be the first of many tutorials that will showcase Spry's usage with CodeIgniter.

I really do enjoy using CodeIgniter for a lot of my web development projects but sometimes I do get frustrated at the lack of simple things such as chaining especially with the email library.  Not to mention, I have had a few problems with it on occasion. I recently decided to take a look at what PHP apps or libraries could easily integrate with PHP without so much as having to always write a "CI" library for integration to be successful..  

For my first port of call, I immediately thought of Swift Mailer.  I did search the web and found a library with tried to integrate Swift Mailer with CodeIgniter but guess what.  It was for an old version of CodeIgniter and I felt the version of Swift Mailer used then was pretty old.

It's been a long time coming but it's finally here. Yup, CodeIgniter 2.0 has been released.  Best of all, it comes in two flavours: Core and Reactor.  

For those who want to stick to Ellislab development cycle, Core is for you.  Quite simply, EllisLab use the Core version of CodeIgniter to develop its commercial products such as Expression Engine and MojoMotor.