Feb

14

CodeIgniter 1.7.x, ‘Core’ 2.0, CodeIgniter Reactor, Bitbucket, Zips… It’s all rather messy

It was just a few months ago that the CodeIgniter community began to explode with a torrent of frustration that CodeIgniter simply wasn’t progressing as a framework. There were also a few prominent developers considering abandoning the framework in favour of more active alternatives.

My favourite summary of the whole situation came in the form of a very enlightened article by Michael Wales at the end of November. One of the main problems highlighted there was the way CodeIgniter was put on the back-burner by Ellislab.

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Mar

11

CodeIgniter 2.0 In Progress – The Critical Changes, Implications, and What You Should Know

Well, it’s been a long time coming, but Ellislab have finally done it, they’ve officially let us know about CodeIgniter 2.0. This is a huge step forward and shows that Ellislab are dedicated to this, their only free product.

I get plenty of emails asking me if this version of CodeIgniter would be released, and it’s clear there’s been a huge buzz about this in the wider development community. So, I’m going to take you through the changes and explain what you need to know, and what this means for CodeIgniter as a framework moving forward.

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Jan

22

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 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.

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Oct

23

PHP Upload Progress with PHP 5.2 & APC

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.

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