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Elliot Haughin

PHP Upload Progress with PHP 5.2 & APC

dev, php / 23rd October 2007 / By Elliot

After re-imaging my server which hosts FilePanda, I decided it would be a good idea to update PHP to allow me to use the new Alternative PHP Cache hook to get access to current upload file progress.
Sounds good right? = well, it’s much simpler than you would think.
First you’ve got to have PHP 5.2 installed [...]

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Akelos – Yet Another PHP Framework?

frameworks, php / 18th October 2007 / By Elliot

I’ve recently wrote about some of my ‘issues’ with the wonderful CodeIgniter PHP Framework.
Whilst looking around for good ruby-on-rails style frameworks for PHP, I came across ‘Akelos‘, A PHP MVC Framework based on Ruby on Rails.

Being a Ruby on Rails port to PHP, Akelos is also designed to make developers lives simpler by resolving complex [...]

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CodeIgniter Multicache Library 0.1

codeigniter, dev / 9th October 2007 / By Elliot

After realizing that there’s quite a few people out there who are using Memcache or APC to cache content in their CodeIgniter applications, I figured it was time to build a nice library that takes care of that.
So, here is the release of Multicache 0.1
I haven’t really had time to test it yet, but I [...]

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The Ice Is Melting! – Quicker Shipping!

environment / 9th October 2007 / By Elliot

I was somewhat dismayed after reading several recent bbc news articles, I’ve realized how focused on business and economy the word is really getting. Since the 1980’s, the northwest passage, which links the pacific ocean to the atlantic ocean via the north coast of canada has been getting clearer and clearer thanks to global warming.
So, [...]

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CodeIgniter’s Future?

codeigniter / 4th October 2007 / By Elliot

Since I use CodeIgniter pretty much every day here at doof, I’ve been thinking alot about what it could do to improve future releases, and really bring it to the foreground for a much wider reach.
Here’s a few ideas for improvements and enhancements:

New Validation Class
CI’s validation class is pretty good right now, but it isn’t [...]

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