CodeIgniter 1.7

Summary

CI offers a lot of goodies to make coding easier and to make your websites more professional. This chapter looked at just five of them:

• The text helper provides useful functions to manipulate and convert strings.
• The date helper allows you to convert between different date formats and also to cope with time zones.
• The Language class makes it easier to write multi-lingual websites, which respond to user preferences. Alas, you still have to do the translation!
• The Table class lets you output properly formed HTML tables, directly from a database query if you need to.
• Automatically caching high-load dynamic pages provides a faster response.