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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.

Send iPhone notifications from CodeIgniter

Send iPhone notifications from CodeIgniter

Most web-applications currently use automated e-mail's to let an administrator know something is going on and some applications use Twitter. Why not use iPhone Push Notifications to get an alert to you immediately without having to check a thing? If you know nothing about how Push Notifications work

CodeIgniter "2.0": Rumours, facts and requests

CodeIgniter "2.0": Rumours, facts and requests

Update 22/03/2010: Now that CodeIgniter 2.0 development code has been release this article is irrelevant. Please have a look at CodeIgniter 2.0: Everything you need to know. Ever since it was announced that ExpressionEngine 2.0 would be running on CodeIgniter, the forums have been jammed

Asset handling in CodeIgniter with the BASE tag

Asset handling in CodeIgniter with the BASE tag

There are many suggested ways to handle your assets (CSS, images, JavaScript, etc) in CodeIgniter including my very own Asset library. Some people use paths relative to the web root like this: <img src="/image/logo.gif" alt="Logo" /> This method works fine if

Clearing CodeIgniter session data

Clearing CodeIgniter session data

A question came up in the CodeIgniter forums today asking how to clear session data. After writing a big reply to answer I felt others might be interested in the various options too. The most practical, yet least thorough is to unset specific bits of user data. This following code

REST implementation for CodeIgniter

REST implementation for CodeIgniter

I have seen 1 or 2 RESTful implementations for CodeIgniter but the syntax and methodology for each of them left me feeling like it could be done better. Firstly , REST is not something that can be put into a library. It is not a "thing" and cannot be

CodeIgniter & Canonical links

CodeIgniter & Canonical links

Due to CodeIgniter's URI flexibility people are able to access the same url in many ways which causes issues with both Google ranking, search results and Google Analytic. Home page http://example.com/ http://example.com/home.html (managed view my page manager) This makes working out who

Access CodeIgniter helpers from Smarty templates

Access CodeIgniter helpers from Smarty templates

This article assumes you already have Smarty parsing your CodeIgniter views. If you have not done this, you can find out how to integrate Smarty with CodeIgniter here. To access your CodeIgniter helpers from Smarty, all you need to do is make a new file in your "smarty/plugins/