CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 1 Setting Up the Environment

This tutorial series explain how to develop a web based application using CodeIgniter, the PHP application framework. As you might already know, CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

In this tutorial, we took the case of developing a basic web based accounting application that can input cash book and bank book data transaction and journal entry.

The tutorial series will cover:

* Part 1 Setting Up the Environment: XAMPP (apache, mysql, and PHP) and CodeIgniter
* Part 2 The application specification, analysis and design using UML use case and class diagram using free UML diagram tool StarUML.. (download here if you have not install it in your computer) . We also need to install StarUML PHP 5 Code Generator Template to automatically generate the class files from class diagram created
* Part 3 ER Diagram and Creating Database using MySQL workbench, formerly fabForce ERD tools for MySQL
* Part 4, preparing to code in CodeIgniter, exporting class diagram to PHP scripts
* Part 5 Coding, the Mainpage
* Part 6 Coding, the and COA Module explain the application coding using CodeIgniter
* Part 8 Coding, the Cashbook Module explain the application coding using CodeIgniter
* Part 7 Coding, the Bankbook Module explain the application coding using CodeIgniter
* Part 8 Coding, the Journal Module explain the application coding using CodeIgniter
* Part 9 Coding, the Reporting Module explain the application coding using CodeIgniter
* Part 10 Conslusion and Further Development: AJAX, Facebook Application


CodeIgniter Tutorial: [Creating Accounting Application] Part 1 Setting Up the Environment