This is an unofficial informational website for learning Webapp Development using CodeIgniter.
This webapp is an experiment. If it works well, it will be proposed for integration into the main CodeIgniter site.
Some of the programming design decisions reflected:
- The architecture adheres more to the "model-view-adapter" convention, where the view is unaware of the source of data and the model is unaware of how any data might be presented. The controllers are go-betweens.
- A "theme template" presents the organizing pages for a course, in a visual style consistent with the main CodeIgniter site.
- A "show template" presents a learning activity as a slideshow suited to presentation or print, using the S5 framework from Eric Meyer.
- A base controller takes care of assembling finished pages, using the master template.
- Using the template parser eliminates PHP code from the views, where possible.
- View fragments are used to style single "records" on their own, improving cohesion.
- The CodeIgniter framework folder has been moved outside of the webapp, in this case to a "system3" folder at the same hierarchy level as the document root.
- An ".htaccess" file is incorporated, to configure Apache to remote index.php from any URLs.
- The site is XML-driven, abstracting as much as possible so that the webapp can be used for other courses. XML was chosen over an RDB because of the rich data structures it can support.
| /data | XML & figures for learning activities |
| /download | reserved |
| /feedback | reserved |
Assumed: CI system folder is in ../system3
Please see the license agreement
This webapp was written by James Parry, Instructor in Computer Systems Technology at the British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Project Lead for CodeIgniter.
CodeIgniter is a project of B.C.I.T.