Every time I make a new website with a user registration, I usually end up using a reCaptcha somewhere in the process. A while ago, I discovered a reCaptcha library on the Codeigniter forums. And since then, Ive modified it a little bit to work with Codeigniter 2.0 and have placed it on Github where everyone can access it....
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When it comes to web application performance, often times your database will be the largest bottleneck and can really slow you down. So how can you speed up performance when you have a site or application that is constantly hitting your database to either write new data or to fetch stored data? One of the easiest ways is to cache the data that is accessed the most. Today, I cam going to show you a brief example of how to do this with Memcached using PHP and th...
All this time, Ive been creating libraries for Codeigniter and talking about its features and whats so awesome about it, but Ive never actually explained what Codeigniter is. So some of you might be looking at the GCal Library I wrote and be like "what the hell is this guy talking about??". So Ive decided that I should probably do a mini series of blog posts, introducing the Codeigniter Framework and even do a couple of tutorials on how to start developing with it.
First of, what is Cod...
Being Thanksgiving break and all, I figured Id work on my CMS a little more and add in some features. One of the features that Ive been thinking of implementing has been one that tweets your blog post when you publish it. Being that twitter limits you to 140 characters and my URL's are rather long, I figured Id make a mini Codeigniter library for URL shortening. I started out by checking out the two more popular services, Bit.ly and TinyURL. As i...
So I was playing around with the Google Calendar portion of the Gdata API the other day and did some searching and found that there wasnt a Codeigniter library for it, probably because it seems that Google has teamed up with the guys that are working on the Zend Framework to bring Gdata to the PHP world. So I took the ZendGdata API for Google Calendar and implemented it in Codeigniter so that you just need to make a few simple function calls to gain authorization to a calendar, add events, query...
