In the begin of this project the requirement was to developed a system to the government hospital laboratory system An we ask to use the php codeigniter as our front end, this is the first time i heard about the this php framework. First our group has look in to the framework and had to learn it from the scratch. I am my self take the responsibility to learn this and teach the others. Codeigniter was used to maintain the MVC architecture on PHP,
CodeIgniter is an open source rapid development web application framework, for use in building dynamic web sites with PHP. "Its goal is to enable [developers] to develop projects much faster than 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."[1] The first public version of CodeIgniter was released on February 28, 2006, and the latest stable version 2.1.4 was released July 8, 2013.
CodeIgniter is loosely based on the popular Model-View-Controller development pattern. While view and controller classes are a necessary part of development under CodeIgniter, models are optional.
CodeIgniter is most often noted for its speed when compared to other PHP frameworks In a critical take on PHP frameworks in general, PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke at frOSCon in August 2008, noting that he liked CodeIgniter "because it is faster, lighter and the least like a framework."
CodeIgniter's source code is maintained at GitHuband as of the preview version 3.0-dev, is certified open source software licensed with the Open Software License ("OSL") v. 3.0. Versions of CodeIgniter prior to 3.0 are licensed under a proprietary Apache/BSD-style open source license.
The decision to switch to an OSL license sparked some community controversy, especially about the GPL incompatibility of the new license, to which EllisLab has responded with a series of articles entitled Software License Awareness Week.
On July 9th 2013, EllisLab announced that it is seeking a new owner for its CodeIgniter, stating lack of involvement as a reason. It is not clear whether or not CodeIgniter will remain the backbone of its ExpressionEngine software.
This is the definition on wiki about codeigniter. using this freame work we can directly archive the MVC very easy. just have to put our code in right folder, interfaces to the view and db conncetion to the models and the connecters to the controller. this frame work is so awesome when its come to work under the MVC
