Michael Anthony Heap

This assumes you have moved both the application and system libraries into their own folders outside the webroot. (See the user guide) You’ll want to start off by grabbing a copy of the library from github. You need to put the file in ./application/libraries/ and add it to the autoload file located at (see the…

Back in August, I started to play around with Codeigniter at work, and it quickly became my framework of choice. I quickly realised that there were some features that I considered essential missing from Codeigniter. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to extend the core, and so my Codeigniter Theme Library was born. There were a…

After reading that PHP6 might drop support for short tags, I decided to update my main Codeigniter project to use full php tags. I didn’t want to have to go through each file and update them by hand, so I set about automating it. I managed to do it using grep, awk and perl, and…

To start with, you’ll want to grab the latest copy of Codeigniter and extract the files into the folder you’ll be working with. If it says “Welcome to Codeigniter”, we’re in business. You’ll want to update ./system/application/config/config.php and set $config['base_url'] to be your development address. You’ll also want to update $config['index_page'] and set it to…