CodeIgniter

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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