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Redirect user back after login using CodeIgniter

01/06/2014 How To PHP Thoughts & Rants 3 Comments

So you’ve made your CodeIgniter app using PHP, you’ve made is safe, secure and skipped needing to use SQL in favor of Active Records. Well the one thing most people forget to do (or realize later) is a simple UX (user experience) flow of post login routing. Basically, you want…

CodeIgniter URI routing issue with Controllers inside folders

12/08/2011 How To PHP 16 Comments

I’ve seen a lot of people requesting help on figuring out routing on CodeIgniter (2.1.X as of this entry). Which leads me to believe they don’t read the guide and confuse how routes are setup. So, Here is our scenario, We want to have a nice clean URL of: http://example.com/account/manage/4123245/jakub…

Coldfusion and checking if a variable is Defined

01/26/2011 Coldfusion How To PHP Thoughts & Rants 2 Comments

As I work with Coldfusion 9, I can’t help but keep comparing it to PHP, and I get annoyed by some of the small differences. One thing that I really have been getting annoyed with lately is checking if a variable is defined. In most cases you could do a…

Liferay and Coldfusion 9 Portlets… yes you can!

08/03/2010 Coldfusion How To 8 Comments

Over the past few months at work, I have been tasked with finding a solution to run a Portal / CMS system. I went through a number of CMS systems, and Portals, doing the research and trying to find the feature sets that we required. I ended up making…

Need to benchmark your website?

03/22/2010 Cool Apps Reviews 5 Comments

I ran into this issue after suggesting clients to use godaddy.com for the longest time. I honestly feel bad now that in an effort to ‘save a buck’ I funneled clients to this giant of a company to only find months later poor customer support and a web hosting setup…