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I had a problem with Norwegian characters today. I found that my editor’s encoding was set to iso-8859-1, so I needed to change it to UTF-8. I kept the following in config.php in CodeIgniter. $config['charset'] = "UTF-8"; Then I needed to retype all the Norwegian characters in the editor. I set all database [...] This is a quick tip to change your document root in Ubuntu. If you are using github, it is a bit troublesome to work in /var/www directory. You need to type ‘sudo’ each time or change to super user. But if you change your localhost document root to your home directory, you don’t [...]
Continue reading Sending email from localhost using MSMTP with gmail Following up from the previous Aha moment post, this is Aha moment 2 and I am accessing localhost on Ubuntu from Windows 7 in VM Virtualbox. I have VM Virtualbox on Ubuntu 10.10 and I installed Windows 7 in this virtualbox. If I tried to access localhost on Ubuntu from a browser in [...] Well I had a aha moment today, so I thought I should share this. I know that the title is a bit confusing. There are times still I have to use Windows. And there are times when you have to develop for IE7. My set up for this is using IE 7 [...]
Download FilesThere are quite few posts how to use Zend framework in Codeigniter. However none of them worked on my XAMPP. I thought there might be some who are struggling to use Zend frame work on Windows. Here is how I did. Here you can read why they don’t work with Windows. Adding Zend FrameworkHere you can read how to add Zend Framework. And I use this structure for this post. You need to create a folder ../system/contrib/ and add Zend folders in this folder.
Create a file system/application/helpers/zend_framework_helper.php and add the following. I posted how to implement Zend Framework here. However I had a problem with Window’s path when I was trying it. I have found a couple of things about paths in Windows when I am using Codeigniter. If you are using XAMPP or WAMP for your web development, you might have a problem with this difference. I added the following article to Codeigniter wiki today You can find a newer version here. Download FilesBackground and CreditsI learnt Codeigniter from a book “Professional Codeigniter” by Mr. Thomas Myer. I started learning PHP six months ago and read a couple of good books about PHP and I had basic knowledge but not practical experience of PHP. Professional Codeigniter was delightful to read. I have learnt a lot from the book. I highly recommend the book if you are a beginner like me and want to learn CI in practical ways. Especially I enjoyed it in three ways. 2. Reading a book which teachs you how to create one applicatoin, in this case is shopping cart, is the best way for me to learn PHP and CI. 3. While I was reading the book, I wanted to change the application in my way. And this was again good learning for me. I recommend the book and read through it to understand fully. I obtained a permission from the author and I’d like to add my version of updated code here. DOWN LOAD ci_captchaPlease read the previous post to customize it. |
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If you are using Ubuntu and having a problem or setting up sending email from localhost, you can use Msmtp. In this article I go through how to install msmtp and create some hml and php files to test it. Furthermore I will explain how to set up email config for BackendPro which is a control panel for CodeIgniter.