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How-to Ensure a Secure Connection Using PHP
Image via Wikipedia When submitting sensitive information over the web it’s important to ensure that the requested page is being accessed via an HTTPS encrypted connection. I’ve come across some forms that don’t check whether a secure connection has been made or not. In other words, you can delete the S from HTTP and instead [...]
Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 3) – Accessing Data from Facebook
About a month ago I posted a continuation of my Implementing Facebook Connect series on how to establish a connection to Facebook. In this post I am going to look at using that connection we established to access user data and render it on a page.
Selling Campaign Monitor to Your Customers
I am a big fan of the e-mail marketing app Campaign Monitor (CM) as you can see in my recent post 10 Reasons Why Campaign Monitor Rocks. Shortly after writing that post I decided to try and introduce CM to my users and see if I can sell them on the program. I developed a [...]
Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 2) – Establishing a Connection
Two weeks ago I took a look at Facebook Connect (FC) summarizing what it is and why developers would want to integrate it with their own applications in part 1 of this series. Originally I had thought this would be a two post topic but as I have learned more about FC I think it’s [...]
Implementing Facebook Connect (Part 1) – What is Facebook Connect?
Image via CrunchBase I have been spending some time recently developing an online community which will hopefully be launched next quarter. One of the things I wanted to integrate is OpenID to try and lessen the burden of signing-up and logging-in. However, after doing some research I’m thinking that Facebook Connect might be the better [...]
Customizing Domains With Wildcard DNS
It seems to be the “in” feature of most modern web apps today. Giving your users the ability to create a custom URL that they can use to access their account like http://chickenbbq.sign-up-sheet.com. From a feature stand point its nice because it’s another way users can customize your app to their specifications. From a developers [...]
How to use reCAPTCHA with CI
Image by mathowie via Flickr SPAM… a nasty little four letter word. Could mean tasty meat in a can or could mean junk e-mails and form submissions clogging your server and taking up space in your inbox. We are all familiar with it and are engaged in a constant battle to stop it. In this [...]
Generating PDF files using CodeIgniter
PDF files rock! Some of the programs used to view them could use some work, but the file format itself is real handy. As a programmer I have found PDF’s to be most helpful when generating reports that need to be printable. I know we are all supposed to be doing our part to make [...]
