Web Development

Extending The Base Controller in CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter has been my choice of PHP framework over the last year. It’s actually really the first one I’ve ever used and because of it’s simplicity, excellent documentation and easy to add classes, it made an excellent framework to get up and running. One of the early and helpful techniques you want to pick up [...]

Strange FireFox CSS Issue

An oddity I came across today in FireFox, is when I apply height to the input selector, it also defines and shows hidden elements. Those white stripes are because of the following rule: #paypal_form input { margin-left: 200px; display: block; height: 15px; margin-bottom: 10px; } There may be some other Cascading rules, but I couldn’t [...]

“IE Users Can Suck It!

“Firefox 3.5 is out, and, among a slew of major improvements, it now supports the HTML 5 <audio> and <video> tags. I don’t post many video clips to Daring Fireball, but henceforth, when I do, it’ll be with the <video> tag. IE users can suck it.” I’m in the same boat in this attitude. FireFox [...]

TinyMCEditor Fail

If you a lot of work in a web based rich text editor, you know some of the headaches it causes. One of the most popular is TinyMCE rich text editor which offers a host of optins for styling, adding images, applying classes, font styles and many of the common HTML elements. One of the [...]