Phil Sturgeon

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

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

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/

When most people start work on this, they think about using routes. You could do it this way, but then every time you enter a url such as http://example.com/controller then router would send the controller name off to check if it is a username. It's

There are several reasons for starting this blog. Firstly as a way to keep track of all my tips, tutorials, code snippets and various web projects. I like to be active in the world of web development and have been knocking out sites and libraries for years. Secondly I wanted