jQuery and Code Igniter

There aren’t that many tutorials on how to use jQuery and Code Igniter together. I’ve written a bit on how to do some Ajax with jQuery and Code Igniter here, on the Code Igniter Forums. With jQuery, Ajax is pretty easy to do, once you figure out how to get it working once. The toughest [...]

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MUified Open Source Projects

I’ve noticed a trend in how I’ve handled my latest open source projects. I mean, after they’ve been released. I release the code, I set up my client’s implementation, and then I MUify (my word) it. What do I mean by MUify? It’s the difference between Wordpress and Wordpress MU. I’ll illustrate with an example.

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Code Igniter and Wordpress

For those who don’t know, Code Igniter is an open source PHP framework. And of course, Wordpress is blogging software. When you create a Wordpress theme, you have to put it into the /wp-content/themes/folder. To list the blog’s categories, you use the function wp_list_categories(), which puts the categories in an unordered list. The function takes some arguments [...]

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Upgraded to PHP5

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I’ve finally done it. Stefan Priebsch did a talk that I caught the last part of, 50 Reasons You Should Be Using PHP5 (the last few being, “PHP6 will be really neat” and “PHP5 is fun to do”). Not having seen the entire talk I still felt justified in leaving my Macbook’s default PHP4 installation in. When I mentioned this to some attendees of php|tek, their jaws dropped to the floor. Scandal! More on page 26

Gavin Blair @ June 9, 2008

PHP Frameworks to Try Out

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Coming back from the php|tek conference, I’ve made a list of some PHP frameworks that I’d like to get some experience with. I’m worried that Code Igniter is so easy though that I won’t like working with anything else!

By the discussions surrounding them I think many of these frameworks come with a program that creates a database for you depending on your answers to a series of questions. This, I don’t like. I want full control over my database design. As Maggie Nelson put it in her talk Angering Database Gods, Active Record classes can be very bad for proper and efficient database interactions.

Nevertheless, I should at least give these a try.

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Gavin Blair @ May 26, 2008