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I have referenced Shawn McCool’s blog a few times, ”Why CodeIgniter is Dead” and people are wondering why I argued so hard against it back…

Now that PHP 5.2 is gone from my life entirely I am a happy man. As I don’t use PHP 5.2 anymore I no longer need a 5.2 framework, so I quit…

My entire career seems to have come from being a CodeIgniter developer, and a vocal one at that. Since then I have risen up through the…

So only two months until the return of CICONF to America! Last year was CICONF2011 NY which was a great experience. There we announced the…

The CodeIgniter Community has been crying out for EllisLab and the development team to be more open and forward with information…

With CodeIgniter moving to GitHub we are starting to see a lot of CodeIgniter developers wanting to learn more about Git, specifically how…

The CodeIgniter Community has decided to have a little holiday this summer, and head to New York for not just a meet up, but the biggest…

Tonight I started working on the RESTful API for PancakeApp - an invoicing system built in CodeIgniter - when I remembered how many people…

Now that CodeIgniter (Reactor) 2.0 is out people are starting to get involved, which is great. There are still a few stragglers getting…

So it’s been a month since my post ” CodeIgniter: What happens next?” and things have changed drastically in the world of CodeIgniter. That…

Update 31/01/2011: Things have changed a great deal since this article was written and now CodeIgniter 2.0 is released with Reactor (a…

For the last 7 months since CodeIgniter 2.0 was released on BitBucket the question “when will it be stable?” has been all bouncing around…

Modular Separation for CodeIgniter is no more. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off the mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the…

CodeIgniter Con 2010 is the first all-CodeIgniter conference and is being run in the UK. This means anyone who couldn’t make it to San…

Ever wanted to install PyroCMS or set up a CodeIgniter playground but don’t know what the hell you are doing? The wonderful new hosting…

As soon as I saw the tweet from EllisLab that CodeIgniter 2.0-dev was available on BitBucket I instantly converted PyroCMS to run on it. I…

So many people are asking about the new Packages feature in CodeIgniter 2.0 that I need to put this to bed: Packages are not Modules. These…

Sadly CodeIgniter 2.0-dev has not brought us any sort of modular/HMVC system, but luckily Modular Separation works for this new “version…

It has been 6 months since the last CodeIgniter minor update and 18 months since the last major update. Through all this time we were given…

Most applications in CodeIgniter will have various types of pages. The public frontend, a backend admin panel, perhaps some sort of…

This blog has been pretty quiet for a few weeks now, mainly because I have been working on a beast of an article for NetTuts called…

Working with multiple views in CodeIgniter has always been a pain. Out of the box CodeIgniter provides no real way of having a layout file…

A complaint I often hear about CodeIgniter is one about HTML helper functions like , and . The complaint boils down to these points: is…

Last night I set up Zend Community Server with PHP 5.3 and gave PyroCMS (running CodeIgniter 1.7.2) a spin. Out of the box v0.9.7.3 and v0.…

Anyone who has used the CodeIgniter Parser library will agree it is damn basic. The library is literally just a way to use variables and…

Most web-applications currently use automated e-mail’s to let an administrator know something is going on and some applications use Twitter…

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…

Update 22/03/2010: Now that CodeIgniter 2.0 development code has been release this article is irrelevant. Please have a look at CodeIgniter…

There are many suggested ways to handle your assets (CSS, images, JavaScript, etc) in CodeIgniter including my very own Asset library. Some…

A question came up in the CodeIgniter forums today asking how to clear session data. After writing a big reply to answer I felt others might…

Writing an application is easy. Writing an application that supports all characters from multiple languages? Not so easy. The main problem…

As I see it there are three methods to creating an admin system using the MVC framework CodeIgniter. In this article I will show examples of…

A few people have asked me recently about setting up CodeIgniter to run across multiple domains based on the same codebase. This can be…

I have seen 1 or 2 RESTful implementations for CodeIgniter but the syntax and methodology for each of them left me feeling like it could be…

When you have an ActiveRecord call that just will not work, it can be a pain. Many developers seem to find an issue and instantly ask for…

Due to CodeIgniter’s URI flexibility people are able to access the same url in many ways which causes issues with both Google ranking…

This article assumes you already have Smarty parsing your CodeIgniter views. If you have not done this, you can find out how to integrate…

If you have access to your web server via the command line, you can use a unix command called . You can use this to watch changes in any…

To get this working is very easy. Constants can be seen all the way through CodeIgniter and can be set almost anywhere. To keep things neat…

When most people start work on this, they think about using routes. You could do it this way, but then every time you enter a url such as…