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Code Igniter and error pages

Code Igniter (CI) uses default error pages to handle the variety of errors from the system. All of these error pages are stored in the errors folder off of the application folder. I use includes in my site for the header, footer and side column to enforce uniformity; on the 404 pages, if you have your htaccess setup correctly, you can use the same includes. The error pages are outside of the code igniter's functionality, which is why this is important, as the ability to do extra things (like access a database, for example) aren't present. Using the routing, you could direct (after the 404 redirect) visitors to an error page within the CI framework, but the redirected page won't register as a 404 page (thus throwing off the search engines and visitor's links as they won't return an error code).

You can, however hard code some content ad even have a form that points to a CI framework function (which will return them to another CI page, off of the error page).

Happy coding.

Tax day

Tax day for the USA federal taxes is due tomorrow!

If you're paying too much in tax (and ... most likely you are) - you need to grab this book and get it going for this year. I've read this book and I've saved (real money) THOUSANDS of dollars from the advice in the book. Everything is backed up by citing cases, citing laws or using the regulations from the IRS - this isn't "get out of taxes" this is treating your taxes like any other business expense. You eliminate business expenses you can, reduce those when ever possible - this book applies the same cost cutting measures to your tax bill without breaking the law.

Get it, learn it and SAVE money!

- there are TWO tax systems in this country, not the rich/poor that you probably think, but employee verse employer/owner.
- If there is a will, their is an attorney and this book shows that.

MAC user needed

I need to test a new extension, if you're a Mac user, I need you :)
This extension is to test if the WYSIWYG editor installs correctly (and works).
You get a license of the product (and, honestly, this shouldn't take more than 30 minutes of your time)

Email me :)

Using a SELECT form field to disable another field.

If you need to selectively disable fields based upon a select statement, the code to do this is pretty simple:

Just need to make sure that the field you're disabling has an ID set (and you use it in the select statement's onChange)

Adobe Contribute KILLER

One of the frustrating things for me, as a coder, is working with Contribute enabled sites, because they use templates and, usually, because it is all static pages. Today, I stumbled across a product that will absolutely KILL Contribute - and it is FREE!

Check it out:
http://www.cushycms.com/

Check out my introduction to Code Igniter on Community MX, FREE article

http://www.communitymx.com/content/arti ... ?cid=28E6F

Asking for help in forums

Every now and then some one complains about not getting help in a forum for Adobe's products.
For me, I usually skip questions that:
1. lack adequate information (like, say, a URL)
2. abundance of useless information (I don't need a history of all things you've thought about and done, just - what is the problem)
3. level of effort - most likely, if it is complex, I'm less likely to respond because I may not get back to the forum for days, it will take significant time to resolve or I just may not know the resolution.
4. The poster is whining and/or hasn't looked at searching for a solution and/or is on an imminent deadline (bad planning doesn't constitute an emergency response for me)
5. The question is uninteresting (this is usually the issue for me) - which includes (for me) dealing with table layouts, dealing with a CSS layout borrowed from someone else, using a JavaScript solution that is very poorly written (or from a vendor who offers support - seriously, go bug them to fix the issue), complaining about some aspect of Dreamweaver (it has a bug, broke, not working, not doing such and such, etc - although I will read someone's rant about DW being worse than textpad and respond to that), complaining about browser issues
6. Lastly, people who think that, somehow, help is either free or able to be demanded from people here (and this also spills over to people who ask in a rude or immature way, learn to spell or use a spell checker).

Dreamweaver automatic file load

I was reading the Dreamweaver forum and a person asked:

Starting dreamweaver from the command line, is there a switch that specifies the file for it to open?

For example, just going "dreamweaver myfile.html" doesn't seem to do it.

Well, I did a little testing and I found out that you can load up a file from the command line, to do so, just use the full file path:

dreamweaver c:\my\File\Path\filename.html

and it will load the file.

Not sure why that is needed (clicking on the file works too, but I supposed this will assist in automatic file editing...)

EVERYTHING IS FREE*

Yeah, it is April 1st, which is April fool's day - so everything (*you own) is free (*for you) - your bank, credit card and mortgage company make have different opinions on the matter, but I won't charge you for your stuff :)

Of course, if you'd like an extension for free, seriously, email me today (and I have to get it today only) and I'll let you have Complete CSS Menu, Expert Popup, Pop-n-Slide Gallery or Random Flash extension for free. (does not apply to prior purchases...) To send me an email, please use the contact me form over on the right.

If you're a graphic artist and want to trade some of your work for some of my extensions, I have a charity site I do for free that I'd like to upgrade the look to, you can have all of my extensions for a new look for the site. It is http://www.victoryinsoccer.org.

Video demo for Expert Calendar v3

I created the following demo with Camtasia. I've really enjoyed the easy way it makes this quick, in fact, I put this together in less than an hour (from prep to captions) - I didn't know how to do captions right, so they may not be perfect - but I did pick up how to get them in in a short amount of time. Version 5 just rocks (I've got v4 and v3, but never really used them a whole lot)

http://www.expertcalendar.com/ExpertCalendar.html

Techsmith makes Camtasia (as well as snagit, a screen capture utility that I can't live without - in fact almost all of the screen captures on the site are from the snagit utility as well as those in the documentation for all of my commercial packages)