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Accessing CodeIgniter Session Data using External Scripts

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For a project we’re working on, we have the need to access CodeIgniter session data outside of our CI installation, more specifically for a WordPress installation. CodeIgniter, as most developers should already know, stores it’s session data in a database and uses a cookie to refer to the data, as opposed to storing this data [...]

CodeIgniter .htaccess for MediaTemple

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A few tweaks need to be made to CodeIgniter to make it compatible with the MediaTemple hosting environment. This article discusses these required changes to get CI running smoothly.

Beta Testing a new Facebook app, Squirrelify

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We just launched a Facebook app today in its beta form. The application, squirrelify, lets you take a photo from one of your Facebook albums, and add a squirrel to it while blurring the background. The effect that it is trying to produce is that a squirrel pops up right as the camera takes a shot, [...]

CodeIgniter User Authentication Model

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Here is the source code for our user authentication model which we use in our CodeIgniter applications for interfacing with our users tables. Highly configurable to suit a variety of database schemas. CodeVault CodeIgniter User Authentication Model Please leave any feedback for the model on this blog post, not in the CodeVault!

Ongoing Research

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I honestly haven’t had to do this much research since taking history classes in College… The biggest thing that I am researching right now is CodeIgniter. CI is a PHP framework which aims to increase development efficiency by providing a set of commonly used functionality required by typical websites. What this means is that a lot [...]

PHP Framework Research

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I’ve recently been researching several different PHP frameworks in the search for increased programming efficiency. After looking through Zend, CakePHP, and several other frameworks, it looks like we may have found a winner: CodeIgniter. CodeIgniter offers a lightweight, unobtrusive system which would increase programming efficiency after the initial learning curve has been reached. One thing that it is [...]