Category Archives: PHP Development

GetSparks.org Beta Released, Big Changes

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: May 6, 2011

Note: CodeIgniter Reactor 2.0.2 has a bug in it’s core Loader class that breaks package config file loading (and sparks, sadly). It’s recommended that you use 2.0.1 OR the latest at https://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter-reactor OR make the following change in your 2.0.2 installation: https://bitbucket.org/ellislab/codeigniter-reactor/changeset/c461483c8ca0 . The last option is the best. It took a month longer than [...]

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Why PHP Was a Ghetto

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: April 5, 2011

Note: I wrote this over a month ago, but decided not to publish it until now. I was talking with the Co-founder of a pretty cool start-up in DUMBO the other day about why the non-PHP development world generally has such disdain for PHP and the community surrounding it. He brought up an interesting point [...]

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CodeIgniter 2.0 Released, User-Contributed Notes Coming

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: February 2, 2011

In my initial post after joining the CodeIgniter Reactor team (over Thanksgiving weekend ’10), I went as far as to saying that you could hold me responsible for the quality of the CodeIgniter documentation. Here’s a universal truth: Documentation > magic. CodeIgniter 2.0 was released last week, with an announcement on the EllisLab news feed. [...]

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CodeIgniter/PHP + IIS + MySQL + MSSQL: It Works!

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: January 11, 2011

There are a lot of people out there who call themselves “LAMP” developers — short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. That’s the standard configuration for production PHP applications. Recently, I ended up having to build a CodeIgniter application on Windows, IIS, Mysql+MS-SQL, and PHP. Sound like there are bound to be issues? You bet, and [...]

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CodeIgniter Reactor? What’s Going On?

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: December 2, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, Derek Jones of EllisLabs announced that the CodeIgniter Core would officially be branched so a community-driven version of the framework could be created. This new branch will be called CodeIgniter Reactor. The plan, which was clarified today, is focused on allowing a select group of CI engineers to actively commit [...]

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A Better WordPress Search with WPSearch 2.0.2.0

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: November 11, 2010

I’m definitely not the type to evangelize something I don’t think is useful. Ask friends of mine, and they’ll likely tell you how I went through phases where I endlessly promoted things like Notepad++ for Windows, Netbeans IDE (PHP), Sequel Pro, Gnome-Do, Thinkpads, Macbooks, Toy Story 3, iPod Touches, and Visual Studio ’08. I just [...]

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The Best WordPress Search Plug-in: WPSearch 2

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: October 26, 2010

If you want to read about the background of the WPSearch Search plug-in for WordPress, read below. But if you just want the gist of this post, here it is: WPSearch is the best search plug-in for your WordPress blog. It is a stemming, stop-word blocking, fast, relevant, fulltext search for WordPress. There isn’t a [...]

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Flushing CodeIgniter’s URI-based Cache (Part I)

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: December 23, 2009

CodeIgniter’s output caching mechanism — at least in my opinion — has limited usefulness. It can be used to cache the final payload sent to the user for a given number of minutes. But sometimes clearing the cache for all pages or a specific page can be useful, especially if keeping the user from seeing [...]

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Enable Site-Wide Profiling With CodeIgniter

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: November 26, 2009

A very cool part of CodeIgniter is its ability to give you the ‘profiling’ information for page loads. That is, if you add: $this->output->enable_profiler(true); In your controller before you load a view, CodeIgniter will give you information regarding how fast the page loaded, how many SQL queries executed, the content of each query, and the [...]

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wpSearch 1.5.0.5 Released With Features, Fixes

By Kenny Katzgrau | Published: August 7, 2008

After an exhausting week and a half tracking down the source of a mysterious bug in wpSearch, I think I can finally close the book on the “null result” issue that had me pouring over the source code. wpSearch 1.5.0.5, the first official release after the 1.5 landmark, brings to the forefront some of the [...]

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