Just a quick note to say that I’m working on a series of articles related to design patterns in PHP. I’ll soon be posting the first article in the series: Using the Adapter Pattern. If you are interested, be sure … Continue reading
Divya Manian’s article about the pursuit of semantic value has sparked quite a debate. Good ol’ Boag replied stating he agreed with Keith’s response on the matter further adding that investing time in semantics is an investment in the future. … Continue reading
Everything loaded in CodeIgniter is accessable from the CI super object. This is great to keep syntax consistent between Models and Controllers. From within these classes, you can use $this to access loaded resources. CodeIgniter’s userguide states: $this, however, only … Continue reading
When inheriting an app utilising an old version of Phil Sturgeon’s REST Implementation for CodeIgniter, I uncovered a bug with a strange error – “Request header is too large” in my Apache log! Since CodeIgniter stores loaded resources within the … Continue reading
I have personal ‘beef’ with the CodeIgniter loader – I just dont like it. Personally, I may not want every class I load to be instantiated, nor may I want every loaded class to be added as a member. The … Continue reading