CICON2011 Recap

Phil Sturgeon has settled in after last weekend’s very successful CICON, and relates his take on the biggest news items: GitHub, git-flow, no more “Core” branch, Sparks, and (drum roll) the community!  Read the full article on Phil’s blog.

Posted by Derek Jones on August 27, 2011

Converting from Mercurial to Git

If you’ve been maintaining a Mercurial fork of the CodeIgniter repo, we’ve written up a how-to demonstrating migration of that repository to Git.  You can always just clone anew from GitHub, but if you migrate your Hg repository, you will not lose any of your change set history when switching.  Read the step-by-step instructions along with some additional resources at the EllisLab blog.

Posted by Derek Jones on August 25, 2011

GitHub, Reactor, and v2.0.3

If you are following CICON 2011 today, then you no doubt already heard from the Reactor team: CodeIgniter is now using Git for source control, and has moved its home to GitHub.  Also, CodeIgniter “Core” is not longer being publicly maintained.  CodeIgniter “Reactor” is CodeIgniter, so we are dropping that suffix.  In short: CodeIgniter is the framework, and Reactor is our community driven development program.

Lastly, version 2.0.3 was released today, download it here or from the release tag at GitHub.

For full details of our switch to Git, head over to the EllisLab blog.

Posted by Derek Jones on August 20, 2011

Jeffrey Way Talks CodeIgniter

Yesterday Jeffrey Way, Editor of Nettuts+ did a video tutorial on Easy Authentication using CodeIgniter. As part of the tutorial he takes you through the process of building an authentication system with CodeIgniter and how to restrict access to certain parts of your website to only those who’ve logged in.

Posted by Marcus Neto on May 27, 2011

Giving Back

Today we have an announcement that we are very excited about. If you take a look around you will notice some ad spots have appeared in various locations around the CodeIgniter site. Our hope is that by adding some ads to CodeIgniter.com we can give back to the community in a number of ways. Capitalizing on the traffic will allow us to sponsor more events, invest in more hours coding and generally give back more to this awesome community. And we’ve also tried to make several of the ad spots more economical so that many of you can capitalize on them to promote the products or services that you are offering using CodeIgniter.

We are using the Buy Sell Ad Network to manage the ads. Those of you running ads on your sites are probably familiar with them. We chose BSA as it was a very simple process to get the ads online. But we wanted to make sure that whatever system we used allowed us to manage the content that appears on the site. BSA allows you to have complete control over the ads that appear here and we will be doing out best to make sure that they fit within the intent of this community.

I would also like to thank the Reactor Team for their feedback as part of this decision. Your contributions to this community are many and we thank you for that.

Posted by Marcus Neto on May 25, 2011