July 24th, 2006
Update May 31, 2008. There's been some interest in the post recently. CodeIgniter has evolved considerably since I first wrote this, and the Auth library as it stands now is not something that I wrote. There are many good alternatives for user authentication in CI.
A new release of the userauth management framework for Code Igniter has been made available.
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July 20th, 2006
Update May 31, 2008. There's been some interest in the post recently. CodeIgniter has evolved considerably since I first wrote this, and the Auth library as it stands now is not something that I wrote. There are many good alternatives for user authentication in CI.
Update: Peccavio has taken over this project from me. The new home is http://mini-app.peccavi.com/.
Code Igniter is meant to be a flexible, agile and light PHP framework. As such, for philosophical reasons it does not include a user authentication or management component (it would look different for each user). That said, user management is one of the most commonly requested features, and since I needed one for The Shakespeare XML Project, I decided to build my own Code Igniter User Authentication/Management Library.
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July 05th, 2006
After a brief posting in the Code Igniter Forums, I decided to play with some possible Code Ingiter icons.
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May 29th, 2006
The Punchline
I’ve finally got around to releasing the source code first Code Igniter based project - BambooInvoice. BambooInvoice is free, open-source, invoicing software based on Code Igniter. It is intended for small businesses and independent contractors. My priorities are ease of use, user-interface, and beautiful code.
It’s buzzword compliant: AJAX, unobtrusive DOM scripting, script.aculo.us, valid XHTML strict, etc. The entire application degrades gracefully for users without javascript enabled, and complies with WAI priority two.
To get the code, visit BambooInvoice. There’s also a working demo available if you just want to play.
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May 23rd, 2006
"Helps out where you want help, then gets the hell out of your way". That is the highest compliment I can think of. If you are a PHP programmer, and you haven’t taken a moment to look at some of the various upcoming PHP frameworks, do yourself a favour and stop reading now, and go to codeigniter.
PHP has other promising frameworks, but for my money, Code Igniter is the best. Yes Rails has gotten a lot of hype lately (most of it deserved in my opinion), but if you’re looking for a no-fuss, no-muss framework to help you get stuff done in PHP - check out Code Igniter. In addition to a mature framework (it’s built on top of the excellent Expression Engine code), it is actively developed and improved (thank you Rick Ellis), and has a vibrant, active and helpful community built around it.
When I started writing BambooInvoice, I began the project using the Zend framework. It was nice(ish) but clearly unfinished. Then I discovered CakePHP. Now Cake is a very impressive piece of work, but it still felt to me too much like I was programming in "Cake", and not in PHP. Code Igniter is like Linux, it helps me do what I need to do, and trusts that I know what I’m doing.
So there you go, I've officially added my vote to the growing legions.
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