CodeIgniter

  • CodeIgniter Form with Text CAPTCHA

    “A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a program that protects websites against bots by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but current computer programs cannot.” captcha.net The current CAPTCHA system I started using is Text CAPTCHA. The Text CAPTCHA web service generates text-based CAPTCHAs which…

  • CodeIgniter’s alternator() function


    It’s surprising to me how often I find little functions for tedious tasks, that CodeIgniter already has built in. One of these functions is the alternator() function in the String Helper.

  • Image Thumbnail Creation & Caching With CodeIgniter

    How you handle the saving and display of images is very important while planning your web app. Questions you would ask yourself include: How should images be stored? What will the standard naming conventions be? How will thumbnails be created? In this article, I will be focusing on how I decided the way thumbnails would…

  • Framework of Choice: CodeIgniter

    As a developer, I am always looking for ways to increase the quality of my work and the speed at which I complete a project. One of the ways I do this is by utilizing a framework. The framework I choose is CodeIgniter.