Whitelisting CodeIgniter URLS from CSRF

Posted on March 24, 2012March 24, 2012 by Eric Cope

CodeIgniter is a PHP framework we use heavily here at Voltamp Media. When CI2.x was released, it had support for Cross Site Request Forgery prevention. The problem was it was an all or nothing feature. This is fine when POST data originates in forms. However, it is a game stopper for API functionality. Here is Read more about Whitelisting CodeIgniter URLS from CSRF[…]

PHP Exceptions and CodeIgniter

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Eric Cope

I’ve been toying around with PHP’s Exceptions for a number of years now. I never found a clean way to integrate them into my CodeIgniter codebases, until now. I learned about PHP’s SPL Exception library recently as well, so it was a bit of a motivator. I updated my models and libraries to throw exceptions, Read more about PHP Exceptions and CodeIgniter[…]