Summary of Resources Libraries Helpers Plugins...

I found the wiki (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/) and CIForge (http://www.ciforge.com/) to be difficult to navigate. I thought I'd offer a list that might help people drudging

around the forums.

LIBRARIES

Library: Rapyd Library (http://www.rapyd.com/) Rapyd is a set of components/classes that can help to develop CI applications "rapidly".

It has data presentation components (grids, tables) and data editing components (forms,

filters, cruds). Rapyd is thought to build CMS, and to build a CRUD is easy, you need to

join two or three components. Felix built this contribution up so much that it grew from

its humble wiki entry, into its own website!

Library: FreakAuth (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/freakauth) FreakAuth is a library to secure your application. It performs: - user login/logout -

user registration - reset password - change password - website reserved areas locking

Along with these basic functionnalities, Freakauth is a backend administration

application to manage users (roles, profiles...).

Library: Sentry (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/sentry/) A simple security system written by thzero and actively discussed on the forums. Sentry is perfect for those mid-size applications that need a functional user

authentication system but don't really warrant building your own. It is practically plug

and play, and when combined with hooks is a very quick and easy authentication system. Sentry discussion in the forums says that the project is no longer being developed and

that no one can get it to work with the newest release of CI. The auth project seems to

fork sentry though and claims to work in 1.5. That might be the best direction.

Library: Auth (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/auth/) The user authorization system that handles login and registration of users based on the

Sentry-system.(yes it is the modified Sentry. this one is working on CI 1.5.0.1 and

higher) It uses a configuration database table to store user information and stores

minimal information in the session. Features: Login/logout functionality, Registration,

with activation, Forgotten password reset, Auto-login via cookie, Support for multiple

languages.

Library: Simplelogin (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Simplelogin/) Simplelogin is designed to give you a quick and simple login library that will get you

up and running with an unobtrusive authorization system very quickly. It does not try to

guess how you want to structure your app, it simply tries to give you a little help.

Feel free to edit it in any way to suit your needs. It is designed to help if you need

it; otherwise, it stays out of your way.

Library: Simple Authorization Lib

(http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Simple_Authorization_Lib/)

Session Libraries Sessions form the backbone of nearly every web application you can build. Tracking

logins, userinformation, preferences, etc. Code Igniter does come with its own very

handy session class, but there are community contributions that make working with

sessions even more secure and powerful. There are at least 3 excellent contributions in

the session management realm.

Library: Native Session (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/Native_session/). A "go to" session management library. Nice work, and thanks Seele! A favourite feature?

"Flashdata"; you can set the session attribute that will persist only for the next

request.

Library: DB Session (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/DB_Session/) This library provides a session class that stores session variables in a database. Code

Igniter bundles a session class, working with cookies. Unfortunately, this class stores

session data directly inside the cookie, thus allowing the client to see and edit those

data. Here is a replacement class that stores data in the database.

Library: OB Session (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/OB_Session/) An attempt to provide the best of all possible session worlds. By Oscar Bajner. This

replacement class for Code Igniter session library borrows from ideas presented in

Native session and DB session. It attempts to retain all the benefits of the original CI

implementation, adding the best features from other libs and adds several enhancements.

Library: PHPsession (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/PHPSession/) This is a session library that uses native PHP sessions. It stores data server-side,

instead of client-side (like regular CI sessions). This library also supports ‘flash’

variables, as described in this forum thread

(http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/45062/). These let you set a variable that

will only exist for one page load, then be automatically destroyed (unless you specify

you want to keep them for one more load). Useful for passing variables from one page to

the next (ie, error messages) without having to do anything in the URL.

Library: Filters System (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/Filters_system/) Filters allow you to execute code before, after or around a controller; modifying a

controllers execution path without modifying the controller itself. Filters permit

customization of an application to specific deployment requirements using CI hooks. Useful for for authentication, data cleanup, and other assorted and sundry uses. It also

seems to be one of those features that other frameworks use and is a commonly requested

feature.

Library: Form Library (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Form_Library/) The Form library is a complete replacement for the Form helper. It reads an XML document

and converts it to an array (via the Xml Library).

Library: XML Topic Maps (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/libxtm) A flexible set of libraries, one abstracting the native PHP dom functions (for ease of

use), and another abstracting that class utilizing hard-coded node naming conventions

standardized in the www.topicmaps.org XTM DTD - with higher level attribute and value

control given to the user. Use of these libraries is near to impossible unless you know

what Topic Maps are, and also how the XTM specification is used/structured. This is PHP5

ONLY at the moment.

Libray: Xml Library (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Xml_Library/) The XML library is an XML parser. It currently has limited features, and is more of a

helper library.

Library: DOM library (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/DOM_library/) DOMLib was built to ease the use of the PHP DOM object.

Library: AJAX for CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/AJAX_for_CodeIgniter/) AJAX for CodeIgniter is a CodeIgniter library that provides you with AJAX functionality

for your CodeIgniter web applications. It comes with simple to use AJAX helpers that you

can directly put in use in your apps. AJAX for CodeIgniter includes both Prototype and

Scriptaculous helpers. Compatible with CodeIgniter 1.5.1.

Library: XAJAX (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/XAJAX/) Xajax is an AJAX library for PHP that allows you to create AJAX functionality without

writing javascript. It’s very functional and fairly simple to use.

Library: TinyAjax (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/TinyAjax/) TinyAjax is a small php5 library that allows you to easily add AJAX-functionality to

existing pages and create new AJAX-enabled pages with just a few lines of code.

Library: YUI

(http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Using_CI_yuiyui-ext_and_MySQL_for_Ajax_Development/) Demonstrates using a combination of tools to build a website. Addresses some questions

about how to use YUI javascript frameworks with CI. Includes several custom libraries

and helpers.

Library: jQuery (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/jQuery/) For fancy Web 2.0 stuff using jQuery (www.jquery.com). It’s lean, it’s easy, it’s fast

and it’s fun. To speed up production uses a jquery class. It’s far from complete,

probably has bugs, error handling broke but posted anyway. Knowledge of jQuery is

necessary to work with it, it might be helpful for some. Using

http://www.visualjquery.com/index.xml is very much recommended, the jquery API is on it.

Library: Form Generation (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Form_Generation/) Form Generation Class integrates the native form helper (with two added functions) and

the validation library. It uses Code Igniter 1.5.x.

Library: Formdate (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/FormDate/) FormDate is a class that creates select and option tags for date and time elements. It

relies on the form helpers form_dropdown function. The forum thread were it all started.

Library: phppaypalpro integration library (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/phppaypalpro) very light wrapper implemented as library around phppaypalpro

(http://phppaypalpro.sourceforge.net/)

Library: PayPal Lib (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/PayPal_Lib/) This library provides a neat and simple method to interface with paypal and the paypal

Instant Payment Notification (IPN) interface. Also on CIForge

(http://www.ciforge.com/projects/paypallib).

Library: Paypal IPN Library (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/paypal-ipn-library) A complete Paypal IPN library. The library is complete, I am just getting it ready for

public consumption. More details to follow...

Library: Graphing (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/graphing) Simple graphing library for code igniter

Library: Panachart charting library (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/Charting/) PanaChart is a PHP class for online charts creation using PHP scripting language and the

GD image manipulation library. It makes it easy to plot several types of charts with

less then 10 lines of code. PanaChart is suited for any scientific or business web

application. I needed a graphing library in my most recent project, and Panachart

library worked out beautifully. Thanks go to Oscar Bajner for doing this up and making

it available.

Library: 3D Pie chart library (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/3d-pie-chart/). Craig's adaptation of an excellent and elegant 3D Pie chart library.

Library: JP Graph (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/JP_Graph/) A brief summary of how to integrate the JpGraph charting library with CodeIgniter.

JpGraph is a comprehensive charting package with support for over 15 chart types.

Library: Google Maps (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Google_Maps/) Reference for how to implement a google maps api library into CI.

Library: layout library (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/layout_library/) A cake-like layout/view system.

Library: YATS (Yet Another Template System)

(http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Yet_Another_Template_System/) YATS is a template system designed as a library with helper functions for Code Igniter

1.5. This library was designed after the CI philosophies—it’s lean and straight forward.

After installing YATS you’ll see how easy is to create and edit templates for your

projects!

Library: TinyButStrong (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/TinyButStrong_Template_Engine/) This is a template library that wraps around TinyButStrong.

Library: Catalyst Model (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/catalystmodel) An extension to the CI Model class that provides some functionality similar to what can

be found in Django and Rails (among others).

Library: ADODB (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/adodb) A CodeIgniter interface to the ADODB library

Library: Richmail (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/Richmail/) This library extends the Email library, adds the ability to take images and add them as

inline attachments. It also made some performance improvements. If you build an email

application, you can see how these are sorely needed. The richmail project has so much

potential. Unfortunately it hasn't evolved much since its inception, and won't work

without some heavy hacking.

Library: CI SWIFT MAILER (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/CI_SWIFT_MAILER/) A solution for using SWIFT MAILER library with CI.

Library: Alternate Pagination Library

(http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Alternate_Pagination_class/) An Alternate CI Pagination Library. This alternate pagination lib (Requires PHP5) uses

page numbers in the URI as opposed to the offsets used by the stock class. Where the

default CI class returns a html string, this class returns an array to be formatted by

your own templates or views.

Library: Digg Style Pagination Library

(http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Digg_Style_Pagination/) Library to produce digg-style pagination.

Library: Language Selection (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Language_Selection/) This package allows you to select the national language of your web site. The initial

language is determined from the browser’s language list as available to PHP as the

$_SERVER[’HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE’] value. This list should reflect the language

preferences of the user. The entries of the browser’s list usually are predefined by the

language variant of the browser, but the user can modify this list if he or she likes to

read web content in various languages.

Library: Unzip (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Unzip/) This class allows programmer to easily unzip files on the fly. The origial class made by

“Alexandre Tedeschi” was modified to a code codeigniter library.

Library: dbug (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/dbug/) How to use phpDump as library for use in CI. PHP Dump is an enhanced version of the var_dump PHP function. It can be used during debugging to quickly output and display many data types, including multi-dimensional arrays and MySQL result sets.

Library: captcha (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/captcha/) An older CI plugin for generating captcha is converted to a library.

PLUGINS

Plugin: PDF generation using dompdf plugin I needed to be able to generate PDFs on the fly for Bambooinvoice's invoice export.

There are a few choices out there, and I played with most of them. FPDF was nice, but I

found the syntax to onerous to be practical (I want users to be able to control the look

of their PDFs, and with FPDF they�d essentially need to learn a new language). After

much searching, I hit upon dompdf. EXCELLENT! Decent support for what I needed to do,

and has decent (not great) support for many CSS styles and XHTML. Please note, that it

is PHP 5 only. PDF generation using dompdf plugin

(http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/PDF_generation_using_dompdf/).

Plugin: QuickModel (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/quickmodel) A model class that uses PEAR's HTML_Quickform to generate forms and the associated CRUD

(create, update, delete) operations to connect them to a database (either CI database,

or ADODB). Think of it as scaffolding on steroids.

Plugin: Excel (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/Excel_Plugin/) If you work with information long enough, you're going to find a need to move it into

the format of popular desktop applications. Ability to take arbitrary database results

and push them out into CSV format that would get read by Excel.

Library: Excel Reader (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Excel_Reader_Class/) This library reads an Excel formatted spreadsheet document. Currently it only works

with newer versions of Excel but will be made to work with older versions in time.

HELPERS

Helper: Form Auto Fill (FAF) (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/formautofill) Form Auto Fill is a helper will populate HTML form elements with values taken from

hashed array or object

Helper: JSON Helper (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/JSON_Helper/) The JSON helper is a simple interface to the Pear Services_JSON class created by Michal

Migurski, Matt Knapp, and Brett Stimmerman. Only two functions exist, json_encode and

json_decode. Both functions take one parameter, the data to be encoded/decoded. Once

data is encoded, it is decoded in Javascript as so (javascript brackets should be

parentheses):

Helper: Mootools (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Mootools/) A reference article to make it easy to utilize mootools in CI projects.

Helper: MySQL DATETIME (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/MySQL_DATETIME_Helper/) A reference describing how to enhance CI’s date helper with MySQL DATETIME / DATE

functionality.

Helper: ObjectForm (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/ObjectForm/) The form helper provided with CodeIgniter is a good idea to help view creators in

managing forms ; for example, the form_dropdown() function is really time and code

length improving, but some function prototypes don’t suit me.

Helper: hexadecimal validation (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Useful_helper_function/) Useful for validating hexadecimal value

Helper: Microformats (http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/microformats/) Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open

data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. This helper is meant to

ease the creation of various well known microformats. So if you ever need to generate

microformats on your site, consider using the Microformats plugin. Currently it supports

the widely used hCard implementation, and the less widely used (but I needed it)

rel="license".

CORE

Core: Filters system (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/filters-system) Filters allow you to execute code before, after or 'around' a controller

modifing a controllers execution path without modifying the controller itself . Filters

permit customization of an application to specific deployment requirements using CI

hooks.

MINI-APPLICATIONS

Mini-Application: CodeCrafter (http://www.ciforge.com/projects/codecrafter) CodeCrafter is a code generator for the Code Igniter framework. One might say, it's

a CRUD utility. It will convert your database into ready-to-run CodeIgniter source code.

Mini-Application: Fire Ignition (http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Fire_Ignition/) Fire Ignition allows you to see log messages and special messages on the fly, using

Mozilla Firefox. Developed using CI 1.5.3. Probably compatible with CI 1.5.x.