codeigniter
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Postmark API Wrapper for CodeIgniter
Notice: This project is no longer maintained. I’ve been using Postmark and it’s API for quite a while. If you’re still sending out emails through PHP’s mail() function, you need to check out Postmark! With Postmark you can off-load those transactional emails and not have to worry about it yourself. While there is a Postmark API…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Simple Login Form With CodeIgniter
Notice: This tutorial is dated. It is important you take care how you store and check a user’s password, they should always be stored with one-way encryption. Read more about Password Hashing. One of the most basic but, most important part of a web application is the login form. The login form is the first stage of…