Blog Archive

If my memories fail me, at least I can build new ones. (or possibly check my blog archive, to re-learn my history.)

Authorization For Codeigniter

User Authentication I have easily spent months of my career writing user authentication systems/classes for PHP.  And even quite a few for codeigniter.  They are always a pain, and are always complicated.  They require the most attention to detail and security.  I have found (what I think) is a moderately well written user authentication class called "tank_auth", it is fairly complicated, but it needs to be to do what it does.  I will have to do a review of...

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File Manager for CKEditor

Want a file manager? This is just a quick note.  I came from using FCKEditor to the new CKEditor and I was very sad to see that the Image manager was no longer included as part of the package.  After looking around, It was very hard to find, and the documentation was pretty poor (especially on the part of CKEditor).  But I managed to find this gem: Core Five Labs FileManager While this has no "built-in" authorization protocol to protect against unintended usage, it...

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