codeigniter-composer-boilerplate

A boilerplate for getting started with latest CodeIgniter using Composer.

Getting started

Only follow these steps:

1) Install Composer.

2) Clone or download the CodeIgniter source code.

3) Edit the ./index.php root file and add the composer autoloader:

// Composer autoload (add this line before CodeIgniter core)
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';

4) Create a composer.json file in the root. This file is for your third-party packages that you want to use.

{
  "description": "My first application",
  "require": {
    "php": ">=5.5"
  }
}

Testing the configuration

1) For example, install GImage package:

composer require joseluisq/gimage

2) In your application/controllers/Welcome.php add these lines:

<?php
defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
use GImage\Image;
class Welcome extends CI_Controller {
    public function index()
    {
        // This code will output a Github image in your browser.
        $url = 'https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/modules/logos_page/Octocat.png';
        $avatar = new Image();
        $avatar->load($url)->output();
    }
}

3) Run your server and navigate.