Server side programming. LAMP Stack, NodeJS, CodeIgniter and more.
With all this load of smartphones and tablets, it is mandatory for us as developers to optimize our content as much as possible so everybody can see it, no matter what device they are using. This is why I wrote…
Yeah, it is a much discussed topic in every CI forum. I needed to set up a payment gateway and it was mandatory to receive the gateway response via $_GET, so I decided to do an investigation on the matter…
I needed to download some files from a remote FTP server and the store them in my website. The usual way would be to download all the files to my computer and then upload them to my website. In CodeIgniter…
We don’t like reading chopped sentences like “Star Wars Old Republic is be….”. It looks fugly. Usually, when trimming text you will go with substr(), but there is a much better way to do it, and believe me, you trimmed…
CodeIgniter 2.0 is coming out soon, so lets start studying the changes done to the HTML Table Class in the dev-release. One of the most requested features was the ability to set tag attributes to individual cells. On CI 2.0…
It happened to me a lot of times, I had my connection set to UTF-8, my database was UTF-8, even my tables and every single field, however, for some reason, the information I updated in phpMyAdmin wasn’t being displayed correctly…
Pulling code from here and there, I gathered enough information to create a small function that allow you to pull your Twitter feed and display it in your website. What you do is basically call the function and pass a…
I know there are several ways to accomplish this, however, of all the ones I’ve tried, this is the shortest so far: So, if you make two classes, row1 and row2, each with a different background color, the result will…
Before explaining the solution, you should know creating thumbnails on the fly is server inefficient, eats a lot of resources and they should be generated as soon as the images are uploaded. However, there are some occasions when we absolutely…
Sometimes we need to add the www to our domain automatically, maybe for aesthetics or ajax issues across subdomains. Apache .htaccess is our friend here. You just need to add this to your existing .htaccess file or just make a new one with the following…
Question of the million dollars. Those annoying image hot-linkers, eating our bandwidth, our food, our… nevermind. Anyway, if you want to give them hell and stop this behaviour, add the following to your .htaccess file (remember to edit your domain…
Piece of cake. If you need to prevent your files, images or anything else to be listed in those directories where an index file is not present, just add the following to your .htaccess file: Piece of cake.