Back in late 2008, I wrote about my first experience using the CodeIgniter framework. Since then, I’ve enjoyed using the framework with PHP — it reminds me of my days programming in ColdFusion.
Today EllisLab and the CodeIgniter team have released the 2.0.0 version of CodeIgniter.
Here’s a list of the main changes from 1.7.3 to 2.0.0:
- Support for PHP 4 is gone, PHP 5.1 is now a requirement.
- CSRF Protection built into the form helper
- Drivers
- Application Packages
- Scaffolding, having been deprecated for a number of versions, has been removed.
- Removed the deprecated Validation Class.
- Plugins have been removed, in favor of Helpers.
- Added routing overrides to the main index.php file, enabling the normal routing to be overridden on a per “index” file basis.
- Added $route[‘404_override’] to allow 404 pages to be handled by controllers.
- 50+ bugs fixed
They also note that this new 2.0.0 version has moved CodeIgniter into a, “much more community-oriented framework than it has been in the past.”
I can’t wait to play with the new version and try out some of the new features and functions.