Open Source

CodeIgniter and BambooInvoice

by damonp on June 22, 2007

in Development,Open Source,PHP

I recently started toying around with CodeIgniter on a new project where I need a simple user login and administration system. I was initially attracted to the first two features listed:

  1. You want a framework with a small footprint.
  2. You need exceptional performance.

This is the first framework I have ever stayed with after a day because it didn’t feel constricting.

CodeIgniter is an open source Web Application Framework that helps you write kick-ass PHP programs.

While looking at the products made with CodeIgniter I found this cool invoicing application:
BambooInvoice: Simple, Open Source, Online Invoicing

Works very similarly to Blinksale buy you own it and can fully customize it. If I only had time to customize it… I think for now Blinksale will work for me.

Popularity: 1%

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ZenCart Godaddy and cURL

by damonp on October 5, 2006

in Ecommerce,Open Source,Snippets

I recently migrated a customer’s ZenCart site to a hosting account with Godaddy.com. The project went smoothly except for the Authorize.net gateway. Trying to process orders, the site timed out on the final order process page.

Godaddy’s support site, some googling and debugging led to this working code to be added to the cURL routine in authorizenet_aim.php.

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
// The line below was posted on Godaddy's support site,
// but did not work for me
//curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"http://64.202.165.130:3128");
// This line worked for me instead
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY,"64.202.165.130:3128");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 45);

Links:

Popularity: 2%

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Will Oracle Make a Play for Zend?

14 February 2006

Oracle recently bought out Sleepycat Software, the creators of the Berkley DB. Berkley DB is the most widely used open source database engine. Last October, Oracle acquired InnoDB another major database engine. The MySQL server application supports several different database engines. Two of these being Berkley DB and InnoDB. MySQL was also recently working with [...]

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Linux and the Enterprise

18 August 2005

I have had some great success in the small enterprise (1-2 LAN fileservers per office), by migrating an average desktop PC over to Linux to serve as a Windows fileserver, router and database server. The hardware costs remain low – normally needing only additional RAM and disk space. Plus it creates a new use for [...]

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Mask Email WP Plugin

16 August 2005

I wrote a quick and dirty plugin to get a primer on how the WordPress plugins API works. Mask Email WP Plugin replaces all email addresses in posts and comments with a bin2hex encoding of the characters in the email. This allows the email address to be visible in a browser and usable by an [...]

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Open Source Adoption

11 August 2005

Open Source software by definition facilitates user customization thus easing integration into existing IT systems and business practices. A Computer Business Review article posits: Unhappiness drives open source adoption. For instance, DiBona pointed out that if Google used Windows, or any other non-open source software program, to make changes to that system he would be [...]

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