CodeIgniter v1.6.2 Released

From CodeIgniter Official News:
We’re pleased to announce that CodeIgniter version 1.6.2 has been officially released. This release includes more than 29 bug fixes and 34 feature additions and enhancements. Among these are some improvements to Active Record and transactional database interaction, the introduction of a constants file, improvements to the Zip library, a [...]

Expression Engine 2.0 Powered by CodeIgniter Coming Soon

At South by Southwest a few weeks ago, Ellislab gave a preview of the new ExpressionEngine 2.0.
The demo shows the beautiful new backend in action, with some top-notch new features (I particularly like the full-screen editing).
However, the main announcement that stood out to me was this:
The big news of the day in my mind, is [...]

New Akismet CodeIgniter Library

Hey guys, I know many of you are using CodeIgniter to build blogs or similar projects. Well, I’ve been building Blaze this week, and for the new blog module, I ended up building an Akismet library for CodeIgniter!
We can’t stand spam.
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the [...]

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 [...]

CodeIgniter 1.6.0 Released

As previously posted, CodeIgniter 1.6.0 has now been released to the public!
Here’s a quick overview of the update:

A Database Forge class: database agnostic table and field manipulation
An enhanced Active Record library
A revised Session Class with “flash variables” and additional security
An extendable Model Class with auto-loadable Models
Extendable Helpers, and additions and enhancements to existing Helpers
A revised [...]