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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

PHP Format abstraction with a simple class

PHP Format abstraction with a simple class

Having a quiet night in before a long day of kayaking I thought I'd write some fun code instead of banging out the usual shit like I've been doing all day... Convert between Array, Object, JSON, XML, CSV and Serialized data and back again easily. I&

Pancake v2.0 - Invoice Clients in style

Pancake v2.0 - Invoice Clients in style

Pancake Payments is a super awesome invoicing application that lives on your server and can be made to keep with your brands look and best of all there are no monthly fees! This application is built on CodeIgniter so it is modular, themeable and really easy to extend if you

Introducing FuelPHP

Introducing FuelPHP

It's been in development for the last two months but the new PHP 5.3 framework FuelPHP is ready to see the light of day and we're just about to roll out the v1.0.0-beta1 we've just rolled out v1.0.0-beta1. Now

Using OmniAuth to make Twitter/oAuth API requests

Using OmniAuth to make Twitter/oAuth API requests

Using the brilliant user system gem Devise and a gem called OmniAuth you can make a Rails application that logs in or registers users via Twitter, Facebook, Gowalla, etc with amazing ease. But once the user is logged in, how do you go about actually interacting with the API on

Upgrading to CodeIgniter 2.0

Upgrading to CodeIgniter 2.0

As soon as I saw the tweet from EllisLab that CodeIgniter 2.0-dev was available on BitBucket I instantly converted PyroCMS to run on it. I got it all working in a few hours after LOTS of headbanging, mouse throwing and blaspheming. All the bugs I found along the way

CodeIgniter Packages != Modules

CodeIgniter Packages != Modules

So many people are asking about the new Packages feature in CodeIgniter 2.0 that I need to put this to bed: Packages are not Modules. These are two entirely different concepts and should not be confused with each other. Modules By modules I mean any HMVC implementation such as

Modular Separation for CodeIgniter 2

Modular Separation for CodeIgniter 2

Sadly CodeIgniter 2.0-dev has not brought us any sort of modular/HMVC system, but luckily Modular Separation works for this new "version" with two minor tweaks. The fix was worked out a few hours after the CodeIgniter 2.0 dev code was released but I was hoping