Tag: CodeIgniter

Buffer Jobs, hiring page done right!

I just stumbled upon buffer’s hiring page and I think it’s great. It shows what they’re doing, is visually beautiful and deserves a look! Buffer allows you to time your updates on social networks like twitter, facebook, linkedin and google plus. You can set which post you want to publish on which network and also when, so your posts don’t stop when you go offline or so you’re sure to hit your target group when they’re browsing a tag. Continue reading “Buffer Jobs, hiring page done right!”

Best PHP MVC frameworks of 2013

Frameworks are making your life easier, since they take care of common tasks you without them would have to repeat for every project or even within projects.

I have assembled a small list of promising candidates for you, they may not be the most commonly used, but they teach best practices, principles like MVC and have communities and thereby helping hands on the internet.

This post was originally written for the semester blog of my class, therefore it also focusses on the types of database queries supported by the frameworks, we have a dedicated module in SQL and databases, which is why it is pretty relevant to the students of my semester. Continue reading “Best PHP MVC frameworks of 2013”

CodeIgniter and Sparks, Fatal error: Call to a member function isMobile() on a non-object

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Now this is just going to be a quick tip about a tiny pitfall in the amazing extension system for CodeIgniter: Sparks.

I was lucky to find a spark to detect mobile devices for a project I’m working on right now, so I wouldn’t have to drag together all the specifications for various user agents, written by James Constable. The problem I ran into was, that CodeIgniter would output an error whenever I tried to load the spark, which went like this: Continue reading “CodeIgniter and Sparks, Fatal error: Call to a member function isMobile() on a non-object”