The Orlando PHP Meetup Group Monthly Meetup

Michael Funk will give a tour of the popular CodeIgniter PHP framework, with an overview of features, recommended libraries, known bugs and gotchas, and links and resources for more information. As a tutorial, he'll lead us through making an example application, based on the now out-of-date video tutorials of yore. Topics covered will include:

1. Why CodeIgniter? (http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/overview/at_a_glance.html)
2. Let's build an application!
3. Recommended libraries, helpers, etc.
   1. Carabiner
   2. Sparks
   3. Kenji's PHPUnit for CI 2.1
   4. LessCSS (lessc.php)

4. Known bugs and gotchas
   1. Database sessions race condition
   2. htaccess
   3. gzip and php 500 errors
   4. csrf protection and "this action is not allowed"
   5. global xss filtering

5. Links and resources