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Validating single form field with CodeIgniter

Is there a quick way to validate a single form field with CodeIgniter to see whether or not that field matches a set of rules? There's the $this->form_validation->run();, but that will return either TRUE or FALSE for the whole form, and that's just not what I'm looking for. For example, if I only wanted to check if the email was valid, c...

How to handle redirections with codeigniter?

Hi, im having problems starting a codeigniter project, the problem is that when i do something in a controller and then i want a page to display the result, an example: i have a form to add a item to the database, i get all the data in the controller and save it to database and then i want (if all went well) to redirect to the main page ...

Is CodeIgniter's ActiveRecord resource intensive?

I’m coding an application with server resources in mind, so I don’t want to use too much so that this application scales in the future. I don’t mind writing my own queries. So, is ActiveRecord resource intensive for my application? Or does it not make a difference? Thanks! ...

PHP CodeIgniter Framework - Thoughts on developing with it?

I've been reviewing different frameworks to use for my next couple of major web applications, and after days of research am almost set on using CodeIgniter. The reason I'm leaning towards CI is that so far it looks to be the best suited for me. It doesn't require constant command-line access (I am currently using shared hosting; the pro...

Problem with passing data to view in codeigniter code.

Hello, I have a codeigniter code that is working on local Apache installation. But it does not work on Godaddy Hosting. I have got other similar views and controllers which are working on Godaddy. Following is the code. I have pasted only relevant code. Controller: function index() { $this->load->model('Feedmodel'); $data['posts...

Cloud-aware programming and help choosing a good framework

How can i write a cloud-aware application? e.g. an application that takes benefit of being deployed on cloud. Is it same as an application that runs or a vps/dedicated server? if not then what are the differences? are there any design changes? What are the procedures that i need to take if i am to migrate an application to cloud-aware? ...

A controller problem using a base CRUD model

In CodeIgniter I'm using a base CRUD My_model, but I have this small problem in my browse-controller.. My $data['posts'] gets all posts from the table called "posts". Though the author in that table is just a user_id, which is why I need to use my "getusername" function (gets the username from a ID) to grab the username from the users ta...

links in codeigniter

hi All, I'm experimenting with codeigniter but don't really understand how links work. for example, I have a link like this: localhost/ci/welcome/cat/7 My base url is localhost/ci, so by clicking on this link I would expect the method "cat" of controller "welcome" to be called. This method is very simple: function cat() { ...

jQuery not refreshing tabs content in IE

Hi all! I have a page that is using jQuery tabs. Within one of my tabs I have a div that contains a form (initially hidden) that I want to use to add content to the tab. What I have works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. But, in IE 7 the tab will not refresh. The post works and the data gets added to the database, but it si...

Querying MySQL with CodeIgniter, selecting rows where field is NULL

I'm using CodeIgniter's Active Record class to query the MySQL database. I need to select the rows in a table where a field is not set to NULL: $this->db->where('archived !=', 'NULL'); $q = $this->db->get('projects'); That only returns this query: SELECT * FROM projects WHERE archived != 'NULL'; The archived field is a DATE field. ...

discover if mod_rewrite is working (MAMP + codeigniter)

Hi, I'm experimenting (and having problems!) with codeigniter. In particular, links do not work. even if they are correct (eg. http://localhost/ci-book/welcome/cat/3, where welcome is controller, cat the method), they can't be open and chrome says "Oops! This link appears to be broken...." Someone suggested to check that mod_rewrite i...

I need some help with either my SQL or my PHP I do not know which...

Hello I am creating a CMS and some of the functionality of it that the images that are within the content are managable. I currently trying to display a table that shows the the content title and then the associated images, ideally I would like a layout similar to this, Content Title Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Content Title 2...

Can I do this with just SQL?

At the moment I have two tables, products and options. Products contains id title description Options contains id product_id sku title Sample data may be: Products id: 1 title: 'test' description: 'my description' Options id: 1 product_id: 1 sku: 1001 title: 'red' id: 2 product_id: 1 sku: 1002 title: 'blue' I need to disp...

Easy to implement captcha with codeigniter?

I'm using CodeIgniter and need an easy to implement captcha. Something simple, nothing too complicated. Any ideas? ...

Codeigniter: Retrieving a variable from Model to use in a Controller

Hi, I bet this is easy but been trying for a while and can't seem to get it to work. Basically I am setting up pagination and in the model below I want to pass $total_rows to my controller so I can add it to the config like so '$config['total_rows'] = $total_rows;'. function get_timeline_filter($per_page, $offset, $source) { ...

Cannot display returned JSON from a JQUERY AJAX call in CodeIgniter

Im using JQUERY + CodeIgniter. I can't seem to get the returned data to display after an ajax call. Here is my JQUERY: $.post("<?= site_url('plan/get_conflict') ?>", { user_id : user_id, datetime_from : plan_datetime_start, datetime_to : plan_datetime_end, json : true }, function(data) { alert(data); }, "j...

How to send set of data for Ajax call from jquery with php at the serverside?

I basically have to do a update of a record. I have a set of controls like textbox, list box, radio button etc. Then i have a button on click of which i need to carry all the updated data into mysql database with a ajax request without page refresh. I am using the php with codeigniter as my serverside code. On client side i am able to ...

Permanently write variables to a php file with php

I need to be able to permanently change variables in a php file using php. I am creating a multilanguage site using codeigniter and using the language helper which stores the text in php files in variables in this format: $lang['title'] = "Stuff"; I've been able to access the plain text of the files using fopen() etc and I it seems t...

Caching one section of a CodeIgniter page

I'm using codeigniter to create a web app. I'm creating the drop down menus in the header. These are included on every page using load->view(). To populate the menus some quite complex SQL is used. The contents on the menu will change infrequently (once/twice a week), whereas the rest of the data on the page is constantly changing. Ther...

CodeIgniter htaccess Redirect

Hello, I'm hoping that this will be a simple question that someone can answer. I'm looking to build a CodeIgniter application that I can build pretty easily in regular PHP. Example: I would like to go to http://locahost/gregavola and have rewritten using htaccess file to profile.php?user=gregavola. How can I do this in CodeIgniter? U...