With the exponential growth of Facebook over the past few years, it's safe to say that quite a large number of active web users today own and use a Facebook account regularly. Facebook connect, which Facebook launched late 2008, is a set of APIs which allow you to integrate your users' Facebook profile into your ...

We built a simple to-do list application last week by implementing the CI basics we learnt in first part of this tutorial. Today, let's go over some of the things that will allow you to customise and extend the CI framework for your specific needs.

Changing the default URL routing

As we have ...

Last week, we covered the basic structure of a CodeIgniter application. Let's now jump right into developing a simple todo list application using CodeIgniter. We will be keeping the actual functionality of the application itself simple here, as the goal here is to give a good overview on what it takes to build a CI ...

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework that makes writing secure web applications a breeze. Being extremely light weighted, it's an impressive toolkit which promotes the Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach to software development. CodeIgniter's incredibly useful libraries, helpers and simplicity give you a sound foundation to quickly build your web apps on. This will be the first part ...

Right from Twitter to Google Wave, real time information streaming via the browser seems to be the most “happening” thing on the web arena currently. However, feeding real time information as and when it is available to an user using your web application is not as straight forward as it is on a desktop environment.

Not yet released, FLOW3 starts making noises on the mass: what's TYPO3 up to? As a result of the already proven TYPO3 CMS, the upcoming 5th version of the system is bringing a solid PHP framework, which can be used apart from the whole system for developing applications of any kind. The FLOW3 subsite stats, against what's ...

You may come across number of functions, variables inside a class, you
call each one them as object of the class.

The keyword “this” is used in a class in php , to call and use these objects as
shown in the example below.

A short tutorial on how to make a simple object for HTTP request without the need of using CURL. The way to accomplish that is using the function stream_context_create to prepare the string, and then you use fopen and stream_get_contents to get the response. <?php

class Custom_Http_Request
{
    private $_url;
    private $_body;
  ...