Codeigniter

Caddy it’s a new kid in the block in category super light web servers. Personally – I love it. Same love I feel to CodeIgniter . To marge both of them, we need only basic rewrite rule to drop into caddyfile.

api.spidersoft.com.au {
        root /var/www/html/spidersoft.com.au
        gzip
        rewrite {
                to {path} {path}/ /index.php?/{uri}
        }
        fastcgi / /var/run/php-sock php
}

This article is related to my previous one about setting up PHPCodeSniffer with CodeIgniter coding standards.

Installation on Linux boxes is pretty yeasy:

sudo pear channel-update pear.php.net
yum install php-pear-PHP-CodeSniffer php-phpunit-phpcpd

On Mac OS X you have couple options. Pear or Homebrew:

brew install php-code-sniffer

And following that, on regular boxes CodeSniffer will be here:

/usr/share/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards

on Mac OS CodeSniffer will be located here:

/usr/lib/php/pear/PHP/CodeSniffer/Standards or… /usr/local/Cellar/php-code-sniffer/1.5.6/CodeSniffer/Standards

CodeIgniter standard can be downloaded from this location  https://github.com/thomas-ernest/CodeIgniter-for-PHP_CodeSniffer

Quick tutorial how to setup proper unit testing with PHPUnit and CodeIgniter 3.0.
We need couple elements

1. CodeIgniter – we are working with version 3.0rc3
2. PHPUnit  – latest one

If you don’t have phpunit installed globally, you can go with composer, just add section to your composer.json

{
  "require-dev": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "4.1.*"
  }
}

and then
composer.phar install
and after while we have
./vendor/bin/phpunit
working phpunit.

let’s create phpunit.xml.dist

next step will require create separate bootstrap file for PHPUnit. Just copy cp index.php tests/Bootstrap.php
We have to make 2 small amends.

Just introduce some new options to my quite popular library CodeIgniter-minify. From now one you can choose CSS compression engine (cssmin || minify), also FORCE rewrite CSS files. Some speed improvements were also made.

Please feel to check out library on GitGub – CodeIgniter-minify

It’s been a while since my library CodeIgniter img was updated. Purpose of this library is pretty clear – to scale images on the fly using CodeIgniter. It’s very useful in all kinds of website and CMS-like projects. All you need to do, is just load library and inside view use it like that

$this->img->rimg('path/to/image.jpg', array('width' => 100, 'height' => 200, 'alt'='my awesome image'));

First time when script hits image, will create thumbnail. Next time, website will get already scaled image. If you need change dimensions, just change it within view – don’t worry about recreating images.