Archive for the ‘php’ Category
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 [...]
CodeIgniter Twitter Library
To go with the recent load of CodeIgniter Libraries I’ve been building, here’s another little one to enjoy.
This library is really simple, it just gets a list of your recent twitter updates… or anyone’s really!
Check out the Twitter CodeIgniter Library page for more details, and documentation.
Fresh Batch of CodeIgniter Libraries Out Now!
After a bit of work, I’ve built a nice little set of useful CodeIgniter Libraries for you to plug into your applications.
I realized, that some of the features I have here on my blog, I would quite like to use in my CodeIgniter applications. And, because many of these new web 2.0 services, it was [...]
CodeIgniter 1.6.0 Release Approaches, But PHP4 Will Remain Supported
For almost 9 months now CodeIgniter has remained fairly static, seeing only a minor revision or two, but after an excellent catch on the CodeIgniter Forums, news comes from Derek Allard that version 1.6.0 is approaching completion!
Despite this new milestone release, the wise folks over at EllisLabs have decided to continue support for PHP4.
There’s been [...]
