by Eric Barnes on November 2, 2009
One of the best things about working with TextMate is the powerful bundle system it includes. I have been using it a lot lately with the CodeIgniter bundle. Here are two that are worth looking at:
TextMate Codeigniter 1.6.3 Bundle
CodeIgniter Textmate Bundle
Either one of those cover pretty much everything except the automatic creation of models [...]
by Eric Barnes on July 10, 2009
Today I wanted to showcase some of the popular authorization systems that work with CodeIgniter. From what I can see this is one of the biggest areas the framework is missing. But I also see their point of view because everyone and their brother wants a different setup or want to it perform [...]
by Eric Barnes on July 9, 2009
For today I am going to show you how to create a settings.php file to store your database connection and general config settings. The reason I use this method is because I am creating applications for general public usage and not all want or care about the framework driving the site. They just need [...]
by Eric Barnes on July 8, 2009
Today I wanted to show you an easy way to use the CodeIgniter database utilities class to repair or optimize your database.
First off lets take a look at the repair utility. By the user guide it is accessed like this:
if ($this->dbutil->repair_table(’table_name’))
{
echo ‘Success!’;
}
As you can see it is very [...]
by Eric Barnes on July 7, 2009
Today I want to discuss extending the core Controller class in CodeIgniter. When developing 68KB I ran into a tricky situation where I needed to auto load several plugins, libraries, and models but they rely on the database which is not setup until the install is ran. So I had to do some outside [...]
by Eric Barnes on July 6, 2009
This is the first post in what is going to be CodeIgniter week here at Eric Barnes. I have been using CodeIgniter a lot and thought it would be good to share some of the tips and tricks I have learned over the past few years. Now with the intro out of the way lets [...]