For years search engine optimization gurus and marketing 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 [...]
Writing a CodeIgniter Book
book, codeigniter / 24th February 2008 / By Elliot
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 [...]
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Blaze – A CodeIgniter CMS
blaze, codeigniter / 19th February 2008 / By Elliot
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. [...]
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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 [...]
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Optimizing and Scaling your CodeIgniter Application – with Benchmarks!
codeigniter, php / 13th February 2008 / By Elliot
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 [...]
