Codeigniter’s lack of an authentication system is both a blessing and a curse. The blessing is that you don’t need to conform to a pre-written and and conventionalised auth library, the curse is that writing your own can cause severe headachaes and countless hours of developing something that comes standard in most other PHP frameworks.
Ever wanted to have plugin functionality in your Codeigniter applications similar to what WordPress has? I’ve started developing a plugin system that lets you define hooks with or without arguments, to modify certain parts of your application without your users having to edit core files. Use is mostly: add_action(), remove_action() and do_action() – but I’ll [...]
Codeigniter is an awesome framework, it’s idea of a parser library that ships with it is not. I have written a simple library that extends Codeigniter’s native view loading to allow you to use Smarty 3 in your Codeigniter projects to render your views. Requirements: Codeigniter 2.0 as this library uses the core and third_party [...]
Yep, just when you thought you were going to have to wait until Codeigniter 2.1 and after the repeated rhetoric of EllisLab saying they weren’t dropping support for PHP4 yet, they go and commit changes to their BitBucket repository completely removing all PHP 4 support from the code-base. The minimum PHP version now required by [...]