Chapter 8. Improving Our Application with Third-Party Code

In this chapter, we have something different for you; we are going to see some examples of code from other programmers that you can use in your application. We hope it's a very entertaining chapter, so we can get some rest from theory before going ahead.

We've found these examples in CodeIgniter's Wiki at http://codeigniter.com/wiki, and other sources. We recommend you to take a look at the Wiki from time-to-time, you will find useful things and, who knows, maybe one day you could contribute too!

We are going to see:

  • How to use meta tags
  • A sitemap generator

Also we are going to see; how to use a Google charts plugin inside our CodeIgniter application, don't miss it!

Creating a helper

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