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To Parse or not to Parse, that is the question

When I first began to consider building a web application using CodeIgniter, one of the key aspects I had in my mind was to keep the HTML template files (the View in Model-View-Controller) as PHP-free as humanly possible. At that time, I was planning to develop an e-commerce application (this was before the launch of Magento), [...]

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Moving the system folder in CodeIgniter

It’s the first real night of actual work on the app, and already I’ve run into my first gotcha! For security reasons I decided to move the /system folder - which contains everything needed to run an application on CodeIgniter apart from the index.php file - outside of the web root. This is easily accomplished by [...]

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Is PHP4 worth it any more?

A week or so ago, I posed a question on Twitter: If you were going to build a PHP application for use by others, would you even bother making it PHP4 compatible any more? Responses were - with one exception - unanimous, with most people citing hosting as a key reason. Rachel Andrew, edgeofmyseat: PHP5 all the way [...]

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