Are you building a multi-language application with CodeIgniter 4? Managing translations for your models can be a daunting task, but CodeIgniter Translatable makes it easy and efficient. This lightweight library integrates seamlessly with CodeIgniter 4’s model system, allowing you to handle translations directly within your models. This library simplifies the process while maintaining the flexibility you need. Key Features Simple Setup: Use generator to prepare basic structure for migrations and models....
Setting up OCI8 and Oracle XE with Docker on macOS
Integrating OCI8 with a PHP environment can be challenging, but recent updates have simplified the process significantly. Follow this guide to get everything set up seamlessly. Adding OCI8 support to PHP Oracle has streamlined the process for adding OCI8 support to PHP. Clear, user-friendly instructions are available in this Gist. Follow the steps outlined to prepare your PHP environment for OCI8. Setting up Oracle XE in Docker Once your PHP environment is ready, you can move on to Docker setup....
Eager and Lazy Loading in CodeIgniter 4
Efficiently managing database queries is crucial for application performance. To simplify it, I made a nice CodeIgniter 4 library that provides two techniques for loading related data: eager loading and lazy loading. composer require michalsn/codeigniter-nested-model These approaches allow developers to fetch related models in an efficient and intuitive way. Here’s a comprehensive guide to understanding and using these techniques. Eager Loading Eager loading fetches related data in advance, minimizing the number of database queries....
User tracking with JavaScript
If you’ve ever wanted to capture info about your users, you might be interested in this little experiment. With features like automatic page view tracking that logs details about your visitors’ browsers, devices, and more, plus the ability to log custom events like clicks, it’s perfect for anyone who enjoys tinkering with web analytics. The PageViewEvents JavaScript class provides a streamlined way to capture and send data about page views and user interactions on your site....
Alerts for htmx and CodeIgniter 4
In a traditional CodeIgniter 4 application, setting up alerts is quite simple. We can simply write a few lines of code or use a dedicated library like codeigniter4-alerts. Things get complicated, however, when we use htmx and want the alerts to interact with the way it works. Here a library dedicated to work with htmx can come to the rescue. Installation Installation via composer is very simple: composer require michalsn/codeigniter-htmx-alerts Next, we can add a container in which alerts will be displayed in our view (or main layout)....
Working with PHP, Ollama and embeddings
While LLMs, such as the popular GPT family models, are incredibly advanced, they do have their limitations. Primarily, they rely on a static set of knowledge learned during their training phase, which means they might lack specific knowledge on certain topics. One of the key concepts in working with textual data is embeddings. These are representations of text in a dense vector space, where similar items are mapped to nearby points....
CodeIgniter Markdown Pages
Markdown Pages project allows you to map Markdown files to collections and easily list or read data from them. In addition to the Markdown parser, we also have the ability to parse YAML sections, where you can put a lot of useful information. How to start: composer michalsn/codeigniter-markdown-pages Basic usage: $markdownPages = service('markdownpages', ROOTPATH . 'pages'); // Get the first directory $dir = $markdownPages->dirs()->first(); echo $dir->getName() // prints: Quick Start echo $dir->getSlug() // prints: quick-start foreach($dir->getFiles()->items() as $file) { echo $file->getName(); // prints: Installation echo $file->getSlug(); // prints: installation echo $file->getPath(); // prints: quick-start/installation echo $content->parse()->getContent(); // prints: parsed markdown from file echo $content->parse()->getMeta(); // prints: parsed YAML as key -> value } This project use Collection class pretty much everywhere so please get familiar with it to use this package comfortably....
CodeIgniter Queue
While CodeIgniter 4 itself doesn’t have a built-in queue system, I have built one which rely on the database handler. But what is a queue? It’s a system that allows you to schedule and manage background tasks or jobs to be executed in the given order. These jobs can include sending emails, processing data, generating reports, and more. Using a queue system helps offload time-consuming or resource-intensive tasks from the main application, ensuring that the application remains responsive....
CodeIgniter Tags
Tags provide a way to organize content and improve the user’s experience by helping them discover related articles and navigate through a website’s content more efficiently. They are particularly useful in content-heavy websites or blogs where there’s a wide range of topics and subjects covered. This blog also uses tags system. These tags help categorize and organize content to make it more accessible and searchable. Since there was no tags library for CodeIgniter 4, I decided to write one....
Auth0 CodeIgniter 4 package
Auth0 is a cloud-based service that helps developers add secure user authentication and authorization features to their applications without having to build these components from scratch. Auth0 is designed to simplify the process of implementing user authentication, including features like single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and social login. Auth0 allows you to add basic authentication functionality very quickly by delegating it to an external platform, but we should always consider whether such a solution definitely suits us....