PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 8: CodeIgniter Overview
Special Guest: Ed Finkler
Release Date: 06/28/2007
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0
Our special guest today is Ed Finkler. Ed is a web application developer, security expert, graphic designer, and dabbling musician. He works for CERIAS at Purdue University, and is a member of the PHP Security Consortium.
Today Ed is going to give us the lowdown on the PHP based framework, CodeIgniter.
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Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We're using the term "computer" loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PC's.
For the past 10 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux OSX, and when necessary, Windows. He has built on a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications. When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of "management by wandering around".
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Cal is happily married to wife 1.28, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 kids who were both bright enough not to pursue a career in IT.
Cal blogs at http://blog.calevans.com and is the founder and host of Day Camp 4 Developers
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June 29, 2007 at 5:36 am
I am myself tied to CodeIgniter under which I am developing a simple CMS for the sites we build. However, while it is indeed a lightweight, easy-to-learn and to install framework, I would very much appreciate a close-up on the Symfony Framework.
Symfony Framewok, for all its glory – ORM, automatic output escaping, routing, and excellent MVC implementation (with partials and such) – it largely undervalued and lacks necessary publicity to make it a destination point in the community of professional php developers.
If you could please leverage the authority Zend Developer Zone has to pay some tribute to the Symfony Framework with one of your next abstract episodes covering it.
June 29, 2007 at 6:48 am
i’ve just found this podcast,
and i’m like pretty excited about it. but is there anyway to subscribe to just the podcast’s rss. that way i can plug it into my podatcher(like i use democracy, but there are even php ones). i’d love to be able to like subscribe to this podcast. sadly your full blog’s rss(which i’m already subscribed too) isn’t the correct format for a podcatcher to really subscribe to your podcast. all they can do at most is, basically, grep through your rss for each podcast. thnx in advance and i really hope that you can like set this up. i’m sure i’m like far from the only web developer who would love to subscribe to this feed. take care.
June 29, 2007 at 12:09 pm
@Jyngyz,
symfony is a good project and we’ve covered it several times here on DevZone. We’ve not yet had a podcast for it but I will work to correct that.
@uberchicgeekchick,
The PHP Abstract Homepage has instructions on how to subscribe to the feed including chicklets to subscribe from just about any feed reader.
Thank you both for the comments.
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June 29, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Hey Cal, nice job getting Ed Finkler to handle Code Igniter. I’m a CakePHP guy as you know (kind of hard to work for them and not use it), and it looks like Code Igniter is a great example of a glue framework, in that it lets you incorporate your own libraries instead of being forced to just use the built-in libraries like some frameworks do. Yes, Cake can be described as somewhat rigid but it’s pretty easy to drop external libraries in place. I can definitely see places where Code Igniter can be used if you’re just quickly building something small.
June 30, 2007 at 1:34 pm
thnx,
i had written a lot more but a firefox spasm zipped me away and than your short cookie life, well together they ate my big long ty and stuff thingy, lol next time i’ll just post anonymously and like say who i am in my post. but yeah, like big thanks for helping me subscribe. *hugs* ty for your podcast, i hope we’re oth very successful at all of our podcasts &projects).
hey do you know of any other good web design/programming podcasts? or even just any other good geeky podcasts. *hugs*.