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.

Amazon S3 - The future of all our storage needs?

Since I discovered Amazon’s S3 (Simple Storage Service) I’ve been curious about it.
Firstly, it has a very unusual business model; offering unlimited amounts of storage and bandwidth, charging you for what you use.
Their rates are also suprising low:

United States
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB - all data transfer in
$0.18 per GB - [...]

Creating a CMS Structure with CodeIgniter

For a long time now I’ve been wanting to build a really good CMS with CodeIgniter.
But I’m not the only one! - After searching through the CI Forums, I’ve noticed that there’s a real demand for such CMS.
About a year ago, I decided to start the ‘CodeIgnition’ Project, a CMS based on CodeIgniter. But, because [...]

PHP Upload Progress with PHP 5.2 & APC

After re-imaging my server which hosts FilePanda, 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.
First you’ve got to have PHP 5.2 installed [...]

Akelos - Yet Another PHP Framework?

I’ve recently wrote about some of my ‘issues’ with the wonderful CodeIgniter PHP Framework.
Whilst looking around for good ruby-on-rails style frameworks for PHP, I came across ‘Akelos‘, A PHP MVC Framework based on Ruby on Rails.

Being a Ruby on Rails port to PHP, Akelos is also designed to make developers lives simpler by resolving complex [...]