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Posts Tagged ‘php’

Setting Up a Local Code Igniter Dev Environment (OSX)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 | Tags: , ,

I'm planning to write a tutorial on using jquery and Code Igniter to create some ajaxy / jsonp goodness. In the process, I downloaded the latest version of CI and began setting it up - when I realized the setup may be helpful to describe. While this tutorial is geared towards Mac users, most of the steps should be similar for Windows users.

Step 1

Download and Install MAMP

MAMP is the OSX version of the one-click Apache-MySQL-PHP install.  If you're on a PC, you want to try out XAMPP instead (XAMPP also comes in an OSX flavor, but I haven't personally tried it).  In any case, you'll want to download one of these two programs and follow the instru...

A Quick Code Igniter and JQuery Ajax Tutorial

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , ,

this is a re-post of an August, 2007 article from my old site. It's still generating a lot of traffic, so I didn't want all of the users who may be looking for it to lose access.
This tutorial assumes a basic working knowledge of Code Igniter. If you have never used CI before, please refer to the framework documentation In the old days (2 years ago), working the Javascript magic to create a cool AJAX based event took a fairly decent working knowledge of the mechanisms behind the process. With the increasing popularity of Javascript libraries however, this type of functionality became available to the web site hobbyist, and was made much easier for the web site profess...