Develop Custom API with Code Igniter MVC Framework, jQuery, Bootstrap, PHP and MySQL
Following “Integrate a Bootstrap Template into Code Igniter Learning Basics of MVC Frameworks”
Learn how to code an PHP & MySQL API based controller into Code Igniter framework that allow you to format your data in JSON, XML, RSS and HTML5 and consume your data using jQuery AJAX and Underscore.js Templates to build a page UI with Twitter Bootstrap 3.
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