A very quick Codeigniter tip this week which will hopefully save you hours of tearing your hair out.

As you can see from the image above I have been writing a command line function and was getting the following error:

The controller/method pair you requested was not found.

This was incredibly confusing as the name I was giving on the command line matched that on the controller – or so I thought. What I actually had in the controller was this:

class kanboard extends CI_Controller {

Turns out that Codeigniter3 expects controller names to have leading caps so changing the … Read the rest

One important action you might want to carry out is auditing what actions users have taken in your application. Having this knowledge is useful for working out which functions are being used and in what order. Sometimes users reach functionality in a way you might not have imagined when writing your code. Of course this is also very useful for carrying out support too.

MY_Controller

Fortunately it is very easy to record actions without too much coding and even better you don’t need to add the call to audit into everyone of your functions making a retrofit of user auditing … Read the rest

As I get more and more deeply involved in using Codeigniter for my projects I discover bits and pieces that I think might be useful to others.

Today is a very quick tip about styling the error messages that are thrown on a form. Looking at the statement that you have in your view it isn’t immediately obvious how you apply any styling to this at all.

The answer, strangely, is to apply the look and feel through a call to set_error_delimiters in your controller and not in the view. The function takes two parameters: the html code that should … Read the rest

I have been working on my side project PostRecycler recently which I have re-written to use the CodeIgniter framework. I came across an interesting challenge where I needed to run some code before every other controller.

What I wanted was to prevent a user from moving away from the dashboard page if their account had expired but what I didn’t want to do was to have to remember to put that into every controller. I guess I could have done it as a helper function but that still would have meant putting a call to it in every controller. MY_Controller … Read the rest