CodeIgniter - Custom errors using the Form Validation class

Posted: 4th Mar 2009

TECHY WARNING - This post has techy-talk, be warned

Recently I've been using the new Form Validation Class on CodeIgniter and though overall it is much better than the previous validation class I found a gripe with it recently when trying to add custom error messages using the "validation_errors()" helper.

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New portfolio section using JQuery Carousel

Posted: 3rd Mar 2009

We have just launched a new Portfolio section called Our Work. It uses a (quite heavily) adapted version of jCarouselLite. We are quite chuffed with it, and also it worked first time in IE6!

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The Halogy Screencasts - CMS (basic)

Posted: 2nd Mar 2009

The first in a series of screencasts showing how Halogy works. This screencast shows how easy it is to make a page on your website, edit it and then add it to the navigation.



A cool new AJAX search feature

Posted: 2nd Mar 2009

blog-autocomplete

We have just implemented a cool new tag based AJAX search feature to the Halogy blog system. It searches tags or keywords that are attached to the blog posts, and then returns the top results underneath. Like the Google "Suggestions" system.



Halogy - the "website in a box" solution

Posted: 1st Mar 2009

A lot of people have similar requirements for their websites. They need a nicely designed template, a CMS (Content Management System) so they can update their pages, a Shop and perhaps cool stuff like a blog or a group email deployment system.

Normally they would hire a web company in to build this site bespoke, tailored to their needs and the costs would be a fortune. But today us web developers rarely re-invent the wheel each time this scenario comes up. We can use systems that do all of the above and where all of the hard work has been done already. We have our own system and it's called Halogy.

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CodeIgniter - building web sites fast!

Posted: 1st Mar 2009

What is CodeIgniter?

I have been using CodeIgniter for about 6 months now and I really love it. It is basically a framework that you can build web applications on quickly. A bit like Symfony or the Zend Framework it allows developers to not have to re-invent the wheel every time they build a blog or a shopping cart system. We have built so many web applications which would normally have taken months, thanks to CodeIgniter framework.

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