Phil Sturgeon

Web developer, kayaker, outdoors madman and part-time alcoholic.


"CodeIgniter" articles

CodeIgniter on PHP 5.3

Find out how to make PHP 5.3 shut up complaining about "warning: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings" and deprecated functions in your CodeIgniter applications.
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Posted: Dec 10, 2009 


Give CodeIgniter's Parser library more kick with Dwoo

Dwoo is a PHP based templating engine aimed as a replacement for Smarty 2.x using similar and alternative syntax. This implementation basically overrides the logic of the default parser with this more powerful system.
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Posted: Nov 23, 2009 


Send iPhone notifications from CodeIgniter

Most web-applications currently use automated e-mail's to let an administrator know someting is going on and some applications use Twitter. Why not use iPhone Push Notifications to get an alert to you immediately without having to check a thing? Read More »

Posted: Nov 21, 2009 


Goodbye Matchbox, Hello Modular Separation

I've been using Matchbox in one of its many forms for several years - almost as long as I have been using CodeIgniter - and it got to the point where I could not use CodeIgniter without it. After all this time an alternative has come along with all Matchbox's features and more.
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Posted: Nov 19, 2009 


CodeIgniter "2.0": Rumours, facts and requests

Ever since it was announced that ExpressionEngine 2.0 would be running on CodeIgniter, the forums have been jammed full of "CodeIgniter 2.0" questions. I have answer this so many times I wanted to clear things up and put some useful suggestions forward.
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Posted: Oct 30, 2009 


Speaking at EECI2009 in Leiden, Holland

As a massive fan of CodeIgniter I was pretty excited to be attending the EECI2009 conference in Leiden, Holland, as it would give me the chance to meet the EllisLabs development team and lots of other CodeIgniter nerds. Now as a last minute replacement I will actually be speaking at the event too! Read More »

Posted: Oct 16, 2009 


Asset handling in CodeIgniter with the BASE tag

There are many suggested ways to handle your assets in CodeIgniter (including my very own Asset library) but this solution has to be one of the easiest. Read on to find out what it is! Read More »

Posted: Sep 17, 2009 


Clearing CodeIgniter session data

This article shows a few ways of clearing session data in CodeIgniter, inlcuding a non-documented approach which lets you wipe all session data without destroying the session. Read More »

Posted: Aug 27, 2009 


UTF-8 support for CodeIgniter

Writing a CodeIgniter application is easy. Writing a CodeIgniter application that supports all characters from multiple languages? Not so easy. Find out how to support UTF-8 content in CodeIgniter.
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Posted: Aug 17, 2009 


Create an Admin panel with CodeIgniter

A topic I see come up on the CodeIgniter forums quite a lot is "How do I create an admin panel" in CodeIgniter? This article will show you the best structure for your admin panel, but leave the actual code to you. Read More »

Posted: Jul 08, 2009 


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