Consider The Following

CodeIgniter is a SUPER powerful framework and I have picked up some tricks along the road.  If you are looking for a simple way to jail access to parts of your application, the following is tried and tested – I use a similar approach in almost every application I write.

When you want to lock users out of just one function or an entire controller just create a new model (call it auth.php or something useful) and autoload it in the autoload.php file under config/

For a simple explanation consider the following :

Really all we are doing is determining which script they are trying to access and if they are allowed to be there or not based on their user permission level (set in a session at login authentication (usually from the database)).

To lock down a controller simply add $this->auth->jail(); to the constructor or whatever method / function you want to lock. This may not be the most elegant solution but it works and is tough to screw up – if you do not need group permissions and only a boolean result, take a look at this one :

As you can see, much simpler however only allows a check to see if the user is logged in or not. Once again, this can be loaded per function or per controller (in the constructor).

Hope this helps, I really do need to get to bed -  probably have twenty revisions for this code after a wink of sleep.  Always welcome feedback (criticism is expected with insomniatic posts).

PS. I am aware “insomniatic” is not a real word.

So we send a few emails back and forth – then he pops up on XMPP, I accepted not knowing who it was.  I decided to blog it in hopes  to make others aware (I have been fooled before).  Now I would usually leave out personal information but this was clearly a SCAM!

Here is the conversation :

This gets better.

If you read within the convo he states that it is him sitting in his bedroom – I decided to investigate further…

Not only do the pictures of the place make it impossibly priced (just happened to be the exact amount I was looking to pay) – the guy was adamant about sending his ID and proving who he was – the damn pictures didn’t even match!  The guy in the bedroom looks like Gates!!

Be careful – pay close attention to detail and never trust a man trying to rent his place from overseas.

Do you think this is a scam? Let me know.

Today I decided I would clean the house – didn’t work so well.

I had this great idea to mind map what I wanted to accomplish and failed miserably.

Here is the output :

this didn't work at all...

A video is worth a few million bytes so here it is – pardon the drunkenness.

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He shipped 1500 high quality gloss cards and I couldn’t be happier – once again, thanks Tony!

I hollered at the guy – “Dude, you apartment is on fire.”… no response. One more time somewhat louder (I didn’t want to wake the neighbors as it was 2AM) “Your fucking house is on fire, do something about it”. He rolled over and said “That”s not mine”. Luckily someone pulled the alarm and he was in the back of the cruiser in no time.

I grabbed my Mac, some smokes and a blanket and waited outside in the rain.  Definitely an exciting event, some people didn’t find it as entertaining.

Tonight’s lesson : don’t drink and cook.

I have not worked with Windows in a while however I thought I could get this thing rolling quickly and out the door – unfortunately now I have to resolve another issue, see screenshot below.

What the hell? Windows can not connect to the Time Server because my Date is not set properly!  The whole reason for connecting to the damn time server is to automatically adjust the time… guhh.

I could be wrong, maybe time servers only adjust time and not date but this is still very annoying.

At this point I have had it with this software.  It is just bad, the world needs to stop using it.