Codeigniter Shield - Account Activation & Two-Factor Authentication

Account Activation & Two-Factor Authentication

Electron app with React and Electron Forge

Build Desktop applications with React and Electron Forge

Create cross-platform desktop applications using modern web development tools and integration of third-party libraries and frameworks with Electron. Build your electron apps with the commonly used web technologies like HTML, JavaScript, CSS. Supports native interface for all platforms like windows, macOS, Linux. Integrate JavaScript frameworks such as React, Vue for front-end tooling. Publish electron apps with built-in templates. Currently Electron apps have support for these templates for publishing,

1. Vite
2. Webpack

Codeigniter Shield - Install and Configure

Install Codeigniter Shield

Codeigniter Shield is the official authentication and authorization framework for codeigniter 4. It provides session authentication, in which the user ID and password is stored in the session for the subsequent requests to authenticate against. Basically, it has all the features that the modern website offers.

Codeigniter in Visual Studio Code - Getting started

Getting started with Codeigniter in VSCode

Codeigniter is a PHP Framework for building robust and flexible websites. Basically, codigniter can be downloaded from official sources as a zip package and install in your system to start development. But, there are other ways to download and install codeigniter to build web applications. Here, we will demonstrate two ways to get started with codeigniter app development in visual studio code. The two approaches used here are,

1. Clone Git repository
2. Composer (tool to install packages and dependencies)

Setup Laravel in Visual Studio Code - Getting started

Setup Laravel in Visual Studio Code

Laravel is a very popular PHP Framework for developing web applications. There are many ways to get started with Laravel development in different platforms. But, the most commonly used IDE by developers is visual studio code because it is open source and has support for multiple languages. It even has extensions enabling to integrate third-party tools and services, thus allows for faster development. Here, two approaches are used to download and install Laravel in vscode.

1. Clone Git repository
2. Composer (tool to get packages and dependencies)

After you download Laravel, first thing that you have to is create a .env file and copy the configurations from the .env.example to .env file. Then, Generate app key and assign to the setting variable.

Install WordPress on IIS (Internet Information Services)

Install WordPress on IIS

WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) built using core PHP. It is a production ready web application package which can be setup in minutes to publish content for the end users. Administrators have complete control over the information being displayed on the site. Managing all aspects of the site is made possible through admin panel.

Deploying WordPress on IIS requires you to configure IIS Manager to handle PHP requests. In order to handle PHP requests enable CGI module from windows features. Install PHP package and register in IIS Manager using PHP Manager for IIS, which is a tool to manage different versions of PHP.

Configure Visual Studio Code for PHP development using IIS Express

Setup VS Code for PHP Development using IIS Express

Visual studio code has been the preferred IDE for software development among the developers and the most popular because of the support for building software in multiple languages and platforms, third-party extensions that boosts productivity. Developing PHP applications in visual studio code requires configuring it to handle PHP requests. 

First, you need to have PHP installed on your machine. In VS Code, open the settings and set the path to the PHP executable in the validation setting.

Next, to configure IIS Express settings download and install IIS Express which is a lightweight web server for development purposes. In the VS Code settings set the path to the executable for both iisexpress Appcmd and iisexpress.