CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is an open-source software rapid development web framework, to use in building dynamic web sites with PHP. It allows the developers to maintain modular grouping of Controller, Models and View arranged in a sub-directory format. CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for developers who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. Its goal is to enable you to develop projects much faster than you could if you were writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries. CodeIgniter lets you creatively focus on your project by minimizing the amount of code needed for a given task. Suitable for all sizes of web applications, the framework supports quick development and deployment of any project. It is highly beneficial for creating interactive, innovative and functional apps without coding them from scratch Codeigniter has inbuilt library classes for many complicated functionalities.

Following are the some features of codegniter.

• • Model-View-Controller Based System
• • Extremely Light Weight
• • Full Featured database classes with support for several platforms.
• • Active Record Database Support
• • Form and Data Validation
• • Security and XSS Filtering
• • Session Management
• • Email Sending Class. Supports Attachments, HTML/Text email, multiple protocols (sendmail, SMTP, and Mail) and more.
• • Image Manipulation Library (cropping, resizing, rotating, etc.). Supports GD, ImageMagick, and NetPBM
• • File Uploading Class