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Free/Open Source CodeIgniter Scripts « shivamtailor — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:15:17 +0000

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By: gerente

gerente — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:33:15 +0000

Very good article!!! The comment written by dlogan was really interesting and helpful. Thanks.

By: seth

seth — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:30:31 +0000

Thanks for this post! It brings out a worthwhile discussion.

I currently agree with dlogan:
“A helper is a collection of functions that are related, but not grouped in a class. A plugin is suppose to serve a single function, and a library is for custom classes.”

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:53:23 +0000

excellent post
thanks for the info, very useful

By: Tranga

Tranga — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:31:17 +0000

Anyome knows a helper for interactive google charts ???????

Thanks
Tranga

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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:04:51 +0000

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By: dlogan

dlogan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:37:54 +0000

While you can put things many places within CodeIgniter, there is typically a “correct” place to put the code depending on what the code does and includes. The logic and differences between a library, helper, and plugin are outlined in the CodeIgniter user manual.

A helper is a collection of functions that are related, but not grouped in a class. A plugin is suppose to serve a single function, and a library is for custom classes.

One of the big thing that CodeIgniter does is provide organization and in the process a modular nature to development. While all the “rules” about where to put things can easily be broken, sticking to the layout helps insure code can be used and allows you to greater leverage the capabilities Codeigniter has to offer.

If you like, CodeIgniter will let you do data processing within a model, import a library as a helper or a helper as a library, or directly edit and modify the CodeIgniter core instead of extending it.

Doing so will have your project be disorganized, make upgrading CodeIgniter more difficult, and generally limit the ability you are able to leverage the CodeIgniter framework.

At that point you have to ask yourself, why am I using CodeIgniter? Why not just download a few classes/scripts from Hotscripts and attempt to integrate them with my project?

By: Dave Strickler

Dave Strickler — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:04:31 +0000

Very helpful – got it working for me quickly.

I did find a ‘feature’ in the Google API. Since it uses the URL to get data, you’re limited to about 2k characters, and thus about 400 data points. You will find varying amounts depending on the char count of your data.

This is not a limitation for the casual user, but a major problem for larger graphs.

By: tahsin

tahsin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:08:39 +0000

nice helpful post. I was searching for these difference. thnks. by the way, any one can helpful notes on php and zend php 5 certification on newdailyblog.blogspot.com

By: codeignitee

codeignitee — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:35:12 +0000

nice writeup!