Codeigniter is a great Framework, it’s been around for quite some time now. Some might say this makes it a bit long in the tooth. Personally I don’t agree, it’s still actively developed, faster than most (much faster than Laravel) and allows you to still write raw PHP when you want to. One of the… Continue reading Url Suffix in Codeigniter
Category: Web Development
Exporting to CSV in Modx
Sometimes the easiest way to bulk edit or export data is through a csv or excel file. While its easy enough to export a database table as CSV if your exporting from Modx then it’s not that straight forward. The reason for this is due to the way Modx stores Template Variables – within a… Continue reading Exporting to CSV in Modx
IP Address Spoofing
I’ve been thinking on the subject of IP address spoofing lately and how easy this could be to carry out. While email header spoofing is both widespread and easy (you don’t even need any paid software or much knowledge) Two IT experts have argued that you can’t really spoof IP addresses elsewhere. On a networking… Continue reading IP Address Spoofing
Creating a static website with Modx
Given that title, you may be thinking “hang on, if it’s a CMS then it’s not going to be static pages, right?” – wrong. Along with one the co-founder and lead Architect of Modx – Jason Coward, for my book review site SFBook, I’ve managed to get the best of both worlds – a static… Continue reading Creating a static website with Modx
Speed up your website
It is very important from both a web design and an SEO point of view that any website you create should display as fast as possible, giving the user the best experience and catering for those with slower internet connections. There are quite a number of changes you can make in order for a website… Continue reading Speed up your website
301 Redirects
Redirecting a website or webpage can be important for a number of reasons, site redesign, change of domain name, business rebranding etc.As far as the search engines are concerned there should only ever be one form of redirect, and that is via the “301? method. Any other form of redirect is considered bad form and… Continue reading 301 Redirects
GetPage Pagination
GetPage is a very useful extra for Modx that allows the pagination of results, most of the time generated by the GetResources extra. It’s pretty straightforward to use however by default there isn’t really any thought given to the duplication that will result from it’s use. There doesn’t seem to be much about this on… Continue reading GetPage Pagination
Supercache and the permissions of Doom
I’ve been using a great plugin for Modx Revolution recently called Supercache which expands on the existing caching system and for complex sites can improve the performance of the website substantially. So far so good, except the caching was so good it didn’t want to give up the cached files and trying to delete them… Continue reading Supercache and the permissions of Doom