Archive for February, 2008
Content is Still King
For years search engine opinization gurus and marketting eggheads have been arguing over the best way to increase a site’s popularity and reach.
One approach suggested by the SEO geeks is that backlinks alone are what is needs to push your site through the ranks of search results to the golden first page, therefore increasing exposure. [...]
Writing a CodeIgniter Book
As well as building a content management system and growing a free file sharing site, I’ve also began writing a book!
Ive realized that I write a great deal of content about codeigniter, a fantastic php framework. So, I’m going to take content that if already written, along with new juicy bloggy goodness and write a [...]
Blaze - A CodeIgniter CMS
Hey guys,
Some of you may remember that I’ve talked about building a CMS in CodeIgniter before… well, after playing about with lots of code, I’ve started to develop and release regularly.
Introducing the first CodeIgniter CMS, Blaze. The current code is extremely Alpha, but includes the modular seperation, a multi-lingual system, and administration routing.
This project will [...]
Handling Passwords In CodeIgniter
After an extremely long debate over at the CodeIgniter Forums, I’ve decided to compile the ‘outcome’ of this discussion here, and show you all the best practices for storing passwords in CI.
First of all, we need to make sure that the password sent from the user to us is encrypted, so that prying eyes cant [...]
Optimizing and Scaling your CodeIgniter Application - with Benchmarks!
Scaling and Optimizing your CodeIgniter Application, with Benchmarks
There’s been a few discussions recently about optimizing CodeIgniter applications to make them faster, more reliable, and scalable.
So, let’s look at some methods of doing this, with ‘real’ numbers and benchmarks.
‘Baseline’ - The Bog Standard
First of all, we need to build a little controller that does ’stuff’.
It’s not [...]
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