I’ve been developing with Code Igniter for years. One thing that irritated me endlessly is the fact that they destroy the $_GET variable since it does not utilize GET strings, there is no reason to allow it. Never mind that we as developers might want to use it. :P There is a way to access [...]
This is shockingly simple… Almost so simple that I’m waiting for the problems, but after five days there has been none so far! When you develop a web application, at some point SQL query optimization just don’t cut it anymore. At Gatorpeeps, you will see we show each user’s latest blog post underneath each of [...]
Finally we can talk about Gatorpeeps officially! We’ve been rather quiet about it, primarily since we needed to finish a few things and stress test it before we punted it. We had our fair share of “Blegh, another Twitter clone…” and we expected it. The thing is, we love twitter! Always have, always will. So [...]
In Kohana PHP‘s config file they have a bunch of weird settings that you have to specify. I cannot for the life of Brian understand why! :P I’m talking about this. The very first thing you need to set: <?php $config['site_domain'] = ‘mysite.com’; Now, I can understand the logic if you want to run your [...]
If you use the template controller in Kohana PHP you may need to override the default template you specified at some stage. This is extremely easy, but it is not documented anywhere, so I thought it might be a good idea to show you. Normally you would specify the default template like this: <?php class [...]
Now I’m not going to start a “my-framework-is-better-than-yours” pissing contest again. I’ve learned that 1) People are not easily convinced that what they are using is actually inferior to what they should be using and 2) life is simply too short to try and convince people otherwise. No, I will say that Kohana PHP is [...]