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How to create custom 404 page with Codeigniter

Broken links will give a bad impression to your users. So always do an analysis on your website using some tools if there is any broken link in the navigation links. But you can not fix the broken links from external websites to your website. Also some user might type a url to your website [...]

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How to post on user’s wall on Facebook?

I want to share the source code first for the busy guys. Source code for Facebook connect for Codeigniter Hope you have already went through my tutorial on the Facebook Connect implementation in Codeigniter. This part comes after connecting the user to your website. Once user is authenticated with the required access tokens, you can [...]

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Removing index.php from website url – Codeigniter

Removing the “index.php” filename from the URL makes the website nice and also search engines like it. It is easy to remove the index.php from the URL in CodeIgniter website. Here are the three little steps. Enable the apache ModRewrite module. If you are using wamp server you do it by using the menu in [...]

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A smart Codeigniter model for all functions

Extending the Codeigniter Model class is a great idea to reduce the code in your model classes by adding some smart functions to it. After extending it, there is no need to write any code in your model for regular CRUD operations and Search functions. Instead only need to inherit from the new model class [...]

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Repopulate form fields in Codeigniter

Repopulating the form fields using the Codeigniter form helper functions will not work when there is not validation assigned to a field. This post explains a solution that can be used to solve this issue. The helper function set_value() is used for populating the values of the input boxes. The function rely on the CI [...]

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