Miscellaneous ramblings of a web developer called David Parkinson. I work full time as a web developer but have interests in other things.
Vanity URL’s are best described as a personalised URL, for example if you want to create a website where a user has their own space, e.g. example.com/username. Companies use this method to advertise a specific product as it’s easy to remember and more to the point.
I decided to give the a whirl in Codeigniter which out of the box does not allow this to happen because of the MVC pattern.
If you... 
Codeigniter is my first choice framework for PHP for it’s small footprint, documentation and easy learning curve. I have built quite a lot of projects using Codeigniter, none of which are online, just internal stuff. Codeigniter has been updated to version 2.1 and here’s what has changed.
You can get the very latest version on Guthub as the framework is now updated constantly.
General... 
I’m currently developing a Content Management System for the company i work for and one thing i’ve spent alot of time looking into is how am i going to keep track of updates when it comes to updating 100+ client websites. I ran into a rather great idea, inspired by Ruby on Rails Migrations. Basically Migrations alter the database in an organised way where anyone can come in and look at what... 