Archive for category 'Projects'
Custom CodeIgniter Validation Methods
CodeIgniter’s Form Validation library isn’t bad. It takes a little getting use to but it can be very powerful. Most of the validation that comes with CodeIgniter are pretty much the only ones you will ever need. Every now and then you will need something else. Extending CodeIgniter libraries is very easy. These are some … Continue reading
Installing Zend Server CE on OS X: A Guide For the Terminal Timid
I use MAMP Pro both at home and at work for development. It quick, it’s easy and I really don’t have to fiddle with it a lot after it is set up. It’s perfect for me. At work we have a project to be built with Codeigniter sitting on a Linux machine but we wanted … Continue reading
Mercurial .hgignore file
If you are using Mercurial, there is this handy file in your repository root called .hgignore. This is a file that keeps track of all of the files that should not be tracked by Mercurial. For example, log files or cache files should not be committed to repositories. I do a lot of work with … Continue reading
Codeigniter Form Library
I’ve been working on a library for Codeigniter that allows you to add a dynamic form anywhere on the page using the database to populate form information such as order of the fields, values of one or many radio, checkbox, and select options. You are even able to apply validation to individual elements. Once I … Continue reading
First Open Source Project
I just signed up for an account with Bitbucket and created my first project. I am going to be creating an open source bug tracker built on Codeigniter 2. I am going to model it based on JIRA which is a JSP bug tracker, but I have a few more plans for it. It’s just … Continue reading
