On a recent project I worked on, I needed to find a way of customer details through an iFrame for processing. After perusing through the Joomla forums on several occasions and even asking questions, I was still left without the answers I wanted. In the end, I decided the best way of doing what I needed was to add some code from the Joomla framework into the iFrame. This enabled me to pass session data as well several pieces of information very easy to my component's iFrame.
For those of you wish to visit Grafik Kaos on your phones, the mobile version of the site is back online. This version should be suitable for those who do not have hi-speed internet with their network.
I am always on the lookout for new IDE's I can use to do most of my web development work. At the moment, my favourite is phpDesigner. The sheer number of features included in the application make it easy for me to do my work. This is closely followed by Netbeans and the Aptana. Dreamweaver at the moment is rarely being used unless I need to update sites created with the the Adobe Developer Toolbox.
With CodeIgniter already offering a superb way of structuring your applications, some you just feel that you need to take things one step further to give your application that higher level of clarity, i.e. breaking your applications into modules.
While waiting for a future version of CodeIgniter to natively include modules, you could look at 3 extensions that currently allow you to spilt your application into modules. These are Matchbox, HMVC and Modular Separation.
For the past few weeks, I have been attempting to re-write my CMS so as to take advantage of some of the proper features of CodeIgniter. Having created a few projects using the framework itself, I found myself repeating a lot of code on some pages. I had not really bothered with creating a MY_Controller file to house all the re-usable code until I started re-writing my CMS.
