I thought I would share something I have been using for quite a while now and find incredibly useful. They are two snippets for Visual Studio that create the standard file start and file end for php files in the codeigniter framework. If you are not sure what I mean then check out the files …
CodeIgniter
CodeIgniter: Using set_value with Form Posts
Today I came across an interesting bug in a codeigniter application I was working on where I encoded ampersands (&) were appearing in a report. I did some rudimentary debugging and realised that for some reason, values from a form were being saved to the database html encoded. I stepped through the code and discovered …
CodeIgniter Error CSS Classes
When version 1.7 of CodeIgniter was released, they introduced a new form validation class that vastly simplified things. I particularly liked the new way in which any errors that occurred during form validation were displayed on screen. Where as before, an error message for a field was displayed as follows: <?=$this->validation->myfield_error?><?=$this->validation->myfield_error?> It seemed much neater …
Creating PDF Documents in PHP Using Tcpdf
When developing websites, it is not going to be too long before you are required to generate a pdf for users to download. One usually searches for a suitable library for this and in php, there are a few options out there. My personal favourite, and one that is still receiving regular updates and improvements, …