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OpenID for CodeIgniter made easy – All about it
Oct 21st
A few months back, I have been struggling to have openID authentication loaded to my application. It’s a hazard… the simple idea of having it integrated to my application and have users logged in using their existing facebook, google account is pretty fancy, but the code behind it is a mess, a complete tragedy. Luckily RPXNow stepped in and provided me a hand in authenticate people and handling the magic works. No one likes to reinvent the wheel after all, and this is a PRETTY HARD wheel to deal with…
Also, I’ve been exposed to the wonderful world of More >
To be a web developer
Oct 17th
Is to know all of these <insert evil and sinister laugh here> languages. This post serves as a starting place for all who wants to be a web developer. You might not need to understand in depth on any of these, but the least is the basic. My choices of framework serves as a suggestion only, the real choice is yours.
1. HTMLBack to when internet was born and introduced to the naked world… Back to when the internet was young and needing a serious developer….Tim Berners-Lee said “let there be HTML”… and there was HTML, and it was good. The More >
Have FPDF integrate with CodeIgniter
Oct 16th
This is a simple, plug it in, it runs, guide. It is still highly recommended that you try and run FPDF successfully without Codeigniter first. So that you know how to actively runs it or your web server supports it.
Step 1: Download the Classes from the FPDF pages.The fpdf.php in the Codeigniter directory.
The font directory in the fonts directory
Step 2: Config File 1$config['fonts_path']= "path-to-your-fontsdir/fonts/"; Step 3: Create the init_fpdf.php 123456789<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); if ( ! class_exists('fpdf')){ require_once(BASEPATH.'libraries/fpdf'.EXT); } $obj =& get_instance(); $obj->fpdf = new fpdf(); $obj->ci_is_loaded[] = 'fpdf'; ?> Step 4: Call it, use a controller to test 12345678$this->load->library('fpdf'); define('FPDF_FONTPATH',$this->config->item('fonts_path')); $this->fpdf->Open(); $this->fpdf->AddPage(); $this->fpdf->SetFont('Arial','B',14); $this->fpdf->SetY(30); $this->fpdf->Cell(40,10,'Hello World!'); $this->fpdf->Output('output.pdf','D'); More >Handpicked Handy PHP Libraries
Oct 15th
Do you ever wondering how to do certain things in PHP like generating graphs, generating pdf or parse RSS efficiently and easily. I found myself rewriting these codes every once in a while and was lucky enough to find these wonderful libraries/framework that are completely free and easy to use.
There are more, but I will only listed my handpicked best one out of these categories
RSS ParserNormally I would use Jquery to do this stuff, but meh. When it comes to PHP, it’s all the way PHP
SimplePie: Very fast, easy to use, PHP driven RSS Parser
Introducing Codeigniter
Oct 10th
This is my first post about Codeigniter, a free MVC PHP framework that is very easy to understand and implement. I have been using Codeigniter for quite a while now and is very please with what I’ve achieved.
Hold on, what is MVC?
MVC is short for Model View Controller and is an abstract way of separating the logic, display and controlling decision. I wouldn’t go through defining them but for the sake of simplicity, I’ll throw in a simple example. And also, I’ll go through this example in Codeigniter’s way of talking, so that we won’t go to outer space without More >
