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Maintain a DRY philosophy in Codeigniter 8 Feb 2012 | 02:53 am
This is my second part in why I really like Codeigniter, it follows on from this post. Whereas the first post was a comparison of Codeigniter and Yii, this post is purely Codeigniter related. When yo...
Turn a word into an array in PHP 24 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
Was mucking around with creating a little word game the other day and needed to turn a string in to an array, this is how it was done: $word = 'words'; $len = strlen($word); $exploded_word = array();...
Looping through select fields and getting the selected text using jQuery 10 Jan 2012 | 03:44 am
I spent a little time wrestling with this and I thought it may come in useful to pop on to the blog. In my situation I had to loop through a number of select items as I needed to post some data. I nee...
Work out the days between two dates using PHP 5 Jan 2012 | 10:55 pm
I've popped this up as I needed to work out the number of dates in between two dates. Again something similar might be out there, but I thought it may be useful for any one out there that may need it....
Use search with Codeigniter pagination 31 Dec 2011 | 10:51 am
Like I mentioned in a previous post, Codeigniter is extremely flexible and the following code is a perfect example of this. This post on using search with Codeigniter pagination uses only standard Cod...
Using PHP to backup an entire MySQL server 20 Nov 2011 | 12:56 am
This post can be used as a free way to use PHP to backup your MySQL server. The code below comes from a script I developed so that we could back up the server with the execution of a single PHP page. ...
Everyday MySQL console commands and MySQL hints 20 Nov 2011 | 12:19 am
PHPMyAdmin is a great tool, but due its web based nature it can sometimes fall a little short, especially when dealing with large amounts of data. Don't get me wrong, it's still very useful for browsi...
Sage Pay Success URI Crypt Length Problems 28 Aug 2011 | 10:31 pm
I have just looking at sage pay form integration and I came across a little problem with success part of the process. This is how the sage pay flow works: 1. Server sends transaction details and use...
Codeigniter Versus Yii - my thoughts 2 Jun 2011 | 12:01 am
Codeigniter versus Yii, now this may open a real can of worms, as most comparisons do, but I have used both and have to come to the conclusion that whilst Yii is probably that slightly more polished, ...
Phew, how busy... 7 Mar 2011 | 09:38 am
Very, very busy at the moment. Along with the welcomed addition of my little daughter O have websites coming out of my ears. Anyhow. I have launched a couple of mini sites this weekend. One named Man...