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Real world apps with CodeIgniter: part II

In part I of this series we talked about the logistics management tool that Glossopteris developed for a US political candidate, using CodeIgniter (CI). Part II will focus on a campaign fundraising tool that was also developed with CI.

The initial brief was a simple web form that was ... [more]

Filed under Code Igniter | Posted by jamesnicol

Real world apps with CodeIgniter: part 1

So after a little coaxing from Derek, I have finally gotten around to talking about what projects have been on the plate for Glossopteris for the last couple of months. This will be of some interest to the CodeIgniter community as some of these projects have been some ... [more]

Filed under Code Igniter | Posted by jamesnicol

Glossopteris featured in scientific publication

One of the first jobs that was undertaken here at Glossopteris, was the creation of the Animal Genome Size Database with Dr T. Ryan Gregory of the University of Guelph. The site, launched successfully in December 2005, has been written up by Dr Gregory along with the Plant and ... [more]

Filed under Company News | Posted by jamesnicol

Complete working example of table relationships

Due to popular demand (well one person) I have added a complete working example of the table relationships framework, ready to be dropped into a CI applicatons folder. The files can be downloaded from the following link;

Files for table relationships

The zip file contains the ... [more]

Filed under Development, Code Igniter | Posted by jamesnicol

Table Relationships in CI

For those of you who work with the PHP framework, Code Igniter, Glossopteris has been working on an addition to the framework that will allow for complex table inter-relationships to be assigned and simple CRUD actions to be completed. This is a pretty close mirror to the model class ... [more]

Filed under Development, Code Igniter | Posted by jamesnicol

Glossopteris.com goes online!

Well we have finally gotten around to getting Glossopteris.com constructed and published to the web. I suppose it is not such a bad thing to be too busy to make your own website ;)

So please look through the site, hopefully the 'Web 2.0' enhancements make the experience ... [more]

Filed under Company News | Posted by jamesnicol