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Expression Engine 2.0 will be out soon

Posted by teejay on October 28, 2009

After years(?) after the announcement of Expression Engine 2.0, the Expression Engine version that will be built using CodeIgniter will be out on December 1st, according to the illustrious Derek Allard.

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Code Completion with Codeigniter using Netbeans

Posted by teejay on June 18, 2009

Most programmers are lazy. If you're like me, you're lazy too. That's why I was so happy about using code completion with CodeIgniter using the Netbeans IDE.

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CodeIgniter: Route Everything, except these Controllers

Posted by teejay on June 11, 2009

There was a recent post on the codeigniter forums trying to get urls like these:

http://yoursite.com/your-slug

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Automatically Get the Base URL for CodeIgniter

Posted by teejay on June 3, 2009

Everytime, we set up or move a Codeigniter site, we have to make sure that the base_url in the config file is correctly set.

Someone recently asked in the CodeIgniter forums about this and we came up with something like this

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CodeIgniter and The HTML Base Tag

Posted by teejay on June 2, 2009

You learn something 'new' everyday. This isn't exactly new but it's new to me.

Today, at the CodeIgniter forums, xwero posted an alternative to doing the following:

    <?php echo base_url() . 'css/styles.css ?>

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Pagination with CodeIgniter

Posted by teejay on April 13, 2009

I've often see forum posts asking why the Pagination class isn't working. I decided to create a tutorial on the Pagination class for those who need to learn about the pagination class.

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Hierarchical Data in a Relational Database

Posted by teejay on March 10, 2009

A Google Search would produce "30,800,000". There are quite a few people looking for a solution to hierarchical data queries.

I, myself have been looking through it for a while and ended up using the The Adjacency List Model due to the need of my data to be updated once in a while.

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