Last week I wrote about a small CodeIgniter app called Simple Task Board. It is capable of managing multiple projects and tasks, but it is very simple, specially now that it is in the first version. So I thought it would be a good idea to explain how it was done. This explanation will occur in a series of posts, starting today with an introduction about CodeIgniter and about this specific application.
Simple Task Board is a very simple tasks management app. It is intended for people like me, that don’t need the power of one of these complex tools and/or don’t want to pay for them. Besides that, it is just another task management tool, built from scratch, open source, that anyone can help giving ideas and playing with it. Maybe with the support of the community we can keep it simple, while addressing the most common issues. This post will act as a information repository about the app, working as a entry point for the GitHub repository.
After my one year trip to Australia I’m back to Brazil. It’s time to get this blog back to life. So, I’m going to start writing about a PHP application I did a few years ago called My Trip Emission. It is an application that give you the emission of CO2 of your trip, all you need is to define the model of your car and your trip (from and to). It is developed in pure PHP with jQuery and the Google Maps API.
After a long time since my last post, I’m going to start writing again. My focus on the next articles will be CodeIgniter. The first thing I want to show is how to integrate CodeIgniter with WordPress. More precisely, I’m going to show how to use WordPress users inside CodeIginter. The motivation for this is that you won’t need to handle user authentication inside your application.
This article is about a small PHP Class that I wrote this week. The idea was to create a first person website for a virtual tour or a street view functionality. So I created the First Person View Class which allows you to move in four directions with four different angles through a map matrix loaded with images.
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This is the last part of the series. We’ve already seen the design creation, an introduction about the WordPress platform and the coding and styling of the entire theme except the footer. So, in this last post, we’re going to do the footer and, to finish our blog, let’s also see some plugins. The footer is pretty simple and we’re going to add some additional styles that we’ve been using during the series.
If you want to catch up with the current status of our theme, please download it here.
In this part of the series we’re going to create the templates used for pages and posts. The page template is very simple because it only has the basic structure of our design. The post template has more details, which makes it more complex. In order to complete the post page, we’re also going to do the comments template.
The current file with the current theme can be downloaded here.
As we continue with our theme’s development, I’ll show you in this article what changes we need in our index.php. So we’ll continue changing the files we copied from the Default theme and we’ll create new CSS styles. In order to complete the main part of our home page, we’ll also prepare our sidebar and add some functions to our theme.
If you didn’t read the previous article, click here to download our theme’s files.
In the Part 3 of our series, we’re going to start (finally) with the development of our WordPress theme. As I’ll not be able to show everything in one article, I’ll show only the header development today. We’re going to use the Default theme as our starting point and change it according to our needs.
Remember to download the final design created in Part 1, because we’re going to use the Photoshop file to extract the header background, the menu background and the social media icons.
In this post I’m going to explain how to install PHP in Windows and how to set it up so you can also debug it. We’ll use XDebug and NetBeans in order to make it work.
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