CodeIgniter Snippets for Visual Studio

I thought I would share something I have been using for quite a while now and find incredibly useful. They are two snippets for Visual Studio that create the standard file start and file end for php files in the codeigniter framework. If you are not sure what I mean then check out the files … 

 

CodeIgniter: Using set_value with Form Posts

Today I came across an interesting bug in a codeigniter application I was working on where I encoded ampersands (&amp) were appearing in a report. I did some rudimentary debugging and realised that for some reason, values from a form were being saved to the database html encoded. I stepped through the code and discovered … 

 

IIS7 WordPress and Friendly URLs

As a developer who uses Vista as their main OS, I have always found developing php sites a little bit awkward. Php never liked to play nicely with IIS and unless you installed and used Apache, friendly URLs were even more difficult to get working. I use IIS extensively for ASP.NET development and I never … 

 

Check your PHP UTF-8 Checklist

I spent way too long this weekend on a problem that had such a simple solution. I guess this issue may have been a little to do with the fact that I use the CodeIgniter framework, which does so much of the hard work for you. it’s easy to get complaisant. I have been working … 

 

CodeIgniter Error CSS Classes

When version 1.7 of CodeIgniter was released, they introduced a new form validation class that vastly simplified things. I particularly liked the new way in which any errors that occurred during form validation were displayed on screen. Where as before, an error message for a field was displayed as follows: <?=$this->validation->myfield_error?><?=$this->validation->myfield_error?> It seemed much neater …