Category Archives: CodeIgniter

Primal Screen website launch

Did I mention that our new website launched? Primal Screen website (100% of code and 75% of design by yours truly). Oh, and I’ll never write another website in that bloated carcass of a useable PHP framework: Zend Framework. My … Continue reading

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CodeIgniter + DreamHost + subfolder + .htaccess problem?

I moved DreamHost earlier this week, and so far, it’s been great. SVN built into the hosting is fantastic, and the UI in their control panel is much easier to use than the various CPanel implementations most hosts use, and … Continue reading

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Make your own live, auto-updating data feed with PHP (CodeIgniter) and Javascript (jQuery)

EDIT: I guess you don’t need to store the last entry time in a cookie, storing it in a simple js var works fine. I’ve updated the code to reflect this. EDIT2: If your server isn’t doing a good job … Continue reading

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Using PHP to generate your CSS Stylesheets (or .JS files)

So maybe you want to just declare a variable once in PHP at the top of your stylesheet: $theColor = “#363636″; And then when you need to refer to it a dozen times, spread throughout your stylesheet, you can, and … Continue reading

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CodeIgniter Rejecting Ajax XMLHttpRequest from jQuery?

I have a javascript/jQuery ajax function that tries to post some data to a URL in my CodeIgniter installation, and it fails. Looking at the console it gives me this message XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://www.DOMAIN.com/chris/calendar/async/update/assignment/325. Origin http://DOMAIN.com is not allowed … Continue reading

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CodeIgniter Active Record aliasing column names to prevent overwriting (especially columns named id)

On a recent project I set up all my tables so that they had a primary key, auto-incrementing column named id. I figured this was a good practice, since it meant that all update queries could just reference the id … Continue reading

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Getting the current CodeIgniter Controller or Method/Action

Gets the current controller: $this->router->class; Gets the current method/action: $this->router->method; I like to use these to automatically import a CSS stylesheet to every page. Something like this: <?=link_tag(site_url(‘css/’.$this->router->class.’.css’));?> <?=link_tag( site_url(‘css/’.$this->router->class.’/’.$this->router->method.’.css’) );?> Which ends up looking like this: <link href=”http://www.chrissilich.com/css/controllername.css” rel=”stylesheet” … Continue reading

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