PHP CodeIgniter 4: Build Restaurant Management System 2026

Skip the next two videos if you've already downloaded VS code and exam, and start the PHP CodeIgniter 4 restaurant management course right away.

Install xampp by downloading from the Apache Friends site, select Apache server, MySQL, PHP, and phpMyAdmin, then start the control panel and verify localhost/index.php.

Install Visual Studio Code, the text editor used in this course, guiding you through downloading for Windows, installing, creating a desktop icon, and starting coding with me.

Discover the design and code of a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant template, featuring a landing page with header links, book-a-table form, menu categories, cart, checkout, shield authentication, and master chef reviews.

Open the php.ini in your exam folder, remove the semicolon from the extension line to enable it, restart apache and mysql to apply changes and prevent future errors.

Create a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant project by downloading the framework, configuring a development env, database, and base URL, then set up index.php and .htaccess for clean URLs.

Build an authentication system in CodeIgniter 4 with the Shield package, covering installation, migrations, login and register routes, and secure validation versus a manual approach.

Integrate a custom template into a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant management project by building a master layout with header, footer, and dynamic content, while loading assets and using Shield authentication.

Learn to display meals on the home page by creating a meals model and database table, fetching all meals via a raw query, and rendering dynamic category tabs with images.

Create a product model with fields name, description, image, price, and meal id to display meal-specific products. Build tabs for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and fetch eight items per meal.

Explore displaying product details in a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant app by routing to a products controller, querying by id, and rendering a dynamic details view.

Log in to attach the user id and post a form to add products to the cart, then insert data via a cart model and display cart items.

Learn to add items to the cart with redirects, flash messages, and session validation in php codeigniter 4, including preventing duplicate cart entries and showing cart status.

Display the authenticated user’s cart items by routing a cart products function, querying the cards table by user id, and rendering a dynamic cart view with image, name, and price.

Implement a delete from cart feature in a CodeIgniter 4 app by routing a delete action, removing the item via model or query, and showing a success message.

demonstrates displaying cart total price in a codeigniter 4 restaurant management system by querying the cart with user id, using sql aggregate and total_price alias, and conditionally showing checkout.

Prepare the checkout in CodeIgniter 4 by capturing the cart total, starting a session to store the price, and wiring a post form toward a PayPal checkout flow.

Create a checkout page in CodeIgniter 4 by rendering a checkout view, building an orders table and model, and submitting form data to store a pending order before PayPal integration.

Explore how to set up a PayPal sandbox, create a rest api app, and integrate PayPal checkout into a codeigniter project, with a focus on a simulated $300 transaction.

Make the checkout dynamic by pulling the price from session, route to a success page after PayPal, and clear the cart for the authenticated user.

Validate the checkout flow using a session-based price check with a before filter to prevent direct access to checkout and PayPal, redirecting invalid attempts to the home page.

Develop a table booking feature by adding a bookings model and database table, validating future dates, and processing booking forms via post routes with session messages.

Display the menu page products by wiring a menu route to reuse the home controller index, load images from assets, and remove 'popular' labels.

Create a user bookings function in the user controller, fetch bookings by user id, and display them in a table showing name, email, date, number of people, and status.

Display a user's orders by querying the user's orders, ordering by id desc, and rendering an orders view with name, email, town, country, phone, address, price, status, and created at.

Learn to add a simple review system to a PHP CodeIgniter 4 restaurant app, showing a review link only for completed orders, with a form, model, route, and submission logic.

Enforce a review access filter that allows only users with a completed order or booking to write reviews. Implement session checks and route safeguards to redirect ineligible users.

Display the latest ten reviews on the home page by fetching and listing them, ordered by id descending. Also create a contact page and wire it through the routes.

Validate user authentication across product details, cart, and checkout; fix null id errors and implement an authentication filter to restrict access to cart, bookings, and orders.

Build and design the admin panel to manage admins, orders, food items with images, and bookings; update statuses, delete entries, and reference the resources section.

Build an admin authentication system in CodeIgniter 4 by creating a master template with header and footer, a login page, and routes, then connect the login to a controller.

Build an admin authentication flow by creating the admin model and admins table, then implement login using session storage, email existence checks, and password hashing.

Display the admin name in the header after login by using session data, validate the header and navbar, and implement a logout page with session unsetting to restrict access.

Create and apply index and login checker filters in CodeIgniter 4 to enforce admin authentication, redirecting logged-out users to the login page and preventing logged-in users from accessing it.

Build index page statistics by counting products, meals, admins, bookings, and orders, passing the counts to the view with compact and refreshing to update charts.

Create an all admins page in CodeIgniter 4 by adding an admins.all route and controller, querying admins by id descending, and rendering a view with session data.

Create new admins in the PHP CodeIgniter 4 restaurant management system by building an admin panel post form, hashing passwords, storing admin data, and displaying flash messages.

Build the admin foods section by listing all products ordered by id, displaying each product’s id, name, price, and an 80x80 image.

Learn to create products in a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant management system by building a form for name, price, image, description, and category, uploading the image, and saving to the database.

Learn how to delete a product and its image in a CodeIgniter 4 restaurant management app, removing both the database record and the file from public/assets/products_images.