Eric L. Barnes

I am happy to announce a simple CodeIgniter library to help you generate slugs for your urls. This is something I use on almost every project and it has been invaluable to me. Hopefully you will find it useful as well. For those that are not familiar with the term slug WordPress defines it as: […]

I am currently building a pretty large CMS system on top of CodeIgniter and I wanted to share some of the best performance optimizations I have found. Although CodeIgniter is optimized out of the box, when you start building large scale applications with large controllers, it is easy to miss things that can add up to […]

Here are some changes I needed to make to my Nginx conf that didn’t seem obvious to me and will hopefully be of help to others: Random 502 gateway errors fastcgi_buffers 8 16k; fastcgi_buffer_size 32k; 413 Request Entity Too Large This is caused because by default file uploads are limited to 1mb. server { client_max_body_size […]

Currently I am in the process of switching a server from Apache to Nginx and here is a quick tip for those using CodeIgniter or who want to host a bunch of very similar domains. For each server line I do this:  server { server_name .mysite.com; root /sites/mysite/www; include /sites/nginx/ci_vhost; } server { server_name .mysecondsite.com; […]

The goal of this project is to provide a simple way to minify and combine js and css files inside a CodeIgniter application. Currently other systems exists but I wanted the compression to be part of my build process. So on deployments I compress and minify all the js and css. Then push off to […]

Now updated for MAMP 2.0.1 I like using MAMP Pro on my mac because it is so easy to setup and the included virtual hosts are very nice. Plus it is easy to install for designers and those that don’t like mucking in the file system. One gotcha though is installing php, pear, and then […]

A common issue I have seen lately is people using the new CSRF protection inside CodeIgniter 2.0.  This is a great new feature but it affects all post data no matter if it comes from a form or from an ajax call.  The ajax part is what seems to be tripping people up.  So I […]