10+ Best CodeIgniter Packages: Libraries, Boilerplates, and Admin Templates

These libraries will help you start and develop a website using CodeIgniter faster and more efficiently.

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Third-Party Libraries

Ion Auth 2 – This library is a go-to library for Auth System. It is used in many popular CodeIgnitor CMSes.
Biostall Google Map API – This Google Map API library enables you to create a map and overlay multiple markers and different shapes.
Ci Sitemap – Generate XML sitemaps.
CodeIgniter-Unzip – Extract ZIP files without installing any PECL.
CodeIgniter-Postmark – A Postmark (postmarkapp.com) library.
CI-FIle-Browser-Awesome – A simple file browser for you to upload files and share them.
Facebook SDK– Library for integration of Facebook PHP SDK v5 with CodeIgniter 3.
CodeIgniter Geolocation – Library allows you to locate an IP Address using “ipinfodb” API.
CodeIgniter-reCAPTCHA – Integrate reCAPTCHA to CodeIgniter-powered site.
CodeIgniter Instagram API – CodeIgniter library to interact with the Instagram API.
Refinery – This is an extension and a command line interface for the Migrations Class which helps create migrations.
Attire – Attire Driver supports template inheritance and asset management in CodeIgniter 3.
CodeIgniter Rest Server – A fully RESTful server implementation.
CodeIgniter-REST Client – A RESTful client library.
Codeigniter TwitterOauth – Integrate Twitter Oauth.
Grocery CRUD – A library that creates a fully functional CRUD system without the requirement of extra customization to the JavaScript or the CSS to do it so.

Admin Templates / Boilerplates

CI Bootstrap 3 – A multi-tenant website template based on CodeIgniter 3 with the integration of some useful libraries such as Ion Auth, and Grocery CRUD.
CI AdminLTE – This template comes with an AdminLTE admin theme.
Metronic – The cleanest and feature-rich admin dashboard template for CI.

Built-In Libraries

CodeIgnitor 3 comes with many useful built-in libraries already. So you should consider checking them before using a 3rd-party one.

Benchmarking Class – Enable the time difference between any two marked points to be calculated.
Caching Driver – Wrappers around some of the most popular forms of fast and dynamic caching.
Calendaring Class – Create calendars dynamically.
Shopping Cart Class – Allow items to be added to a session that stays active while a user is browsing your site. This library is obsolete.
Config Class – Retrieve configuration preferences.
Email Class – Create and send emails.
Encryption Library – Provides two-way data encryption.
File Uploading Class – Allow files to be uploaded with various settings.
Form Validation – Form validation made easy.
FTP Class – Allow files to be transferred to a remote server.
Image Manipulation Class – Modify images such as cropping, resizing, watermarking creating thumbnails, etc…
Language Class – Provides functions to retrieve language files and lines of text for purposes of internationalization
Loader Class – Load View files, Drivers, Helpers, Models, or your own files.
Migrations Class – Made database Altering easier.
Pagination Class – Create pagination.
Template Parser Class – Perform simple text substitution for pseudo-variables contained within your view files.
Security Class – Process input data for security.
Session Library – maintain and track a user’s session.
HTML Table Class – Auto-generate HTML tables from arrays or database result sets.
Trackback Class – Enable you to send and receive Trackback data.
Typography Class – Format text.
Unit Testing Class – Consists of an evaluation function and two result functions to evaluate your code.
User Agent Class – Help identify information about the browser, mobile device, or robot visiting your site.
XML-RPC and XML-RPC Server Classes – Allow you to send requests to another server, or set up your own XML-RPC server to receive requests.
Zip Encoding Class – Create Zip archives.