Category Archives: CodeIgniter

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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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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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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