Have you ever heard about pay with a tweet? Pay with a Tweet is a social media marketing system that lets content creators give away access to their content in exchange for a promotional message in form of a tweet on Twitter or a wall post on Facebook.

Until now, there are two notable free services related to this; PayWithATweet and TransactSocially. Both offer pay with a tweet and wall post on facebook.

The benefits

You can get lot of benefits via viral marketing. In today’s world Networking and Socializing has made its way in most of the people’s lives. Considering this scenario viral marketing proves to be the simplest way of promoting a website or a product. It proves to be a low cost and highly efficient way of popularizing your business. Some say that viral is the new “organic“.

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For this CodeIgniter tutorial, I will demonstrate how to add category to our post in the blog and how to use Ion_Auth as our authentication library. This is a continuation from the past tutorials which are Part 1 and Part 2. However, I do recommend to you to download and look at the full sourcecode of this tutorial because my explanation here maybe too short/simple.

Please use the latest CodeIgniter version for better functionalities and security (now CodeIgniter 2.1). You can look at the Codeigniter user guide on how to update your Codeigniter. You also can download the latest stable Ion_Auth library at github.

Click here to tweet & download the sourcecode or look at the live demonstration first.

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Although Codeigniter 2.1 was released few days ago, it still does not has a native authentication library (or maybe never). Are you searching for an authentication library for Codeigniter? Here, I would like to suggest several libraries which can make your life easier. Why do you want to create a new library or code the authentication system by yourself if there is a superb one? On top of that, it is free!

Below are 5 best authentication libraries for CodeIgniter (from my observation). You can give them a try! Most of them are compatible with CodeIgniter 2.1 (I guess, hehehe ). However, please keep in mind that each library maybe offers different features. Hence, the security features can be varies.

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As I wrote in my last post, I will write some details about my Final Year Project (FYP) in this post. FYI, I’m not taking FYP2 yet for this semester. I supposed to finish my study and leave UTP by this September. However, I just like to extend one semester of my study (until mid of January 2012). So, I’ll be taking FYP2 next semester together with just another subject; Malaysian Studies.

When I’m proposed the title for my FYP, my supervisor was not convince with the project. Hence, he proposed to me to proceed with a new title which is my current project: Map Mashup for Halal Industry in Malaysia. So, this is how I start working on my FYP.

The objective of this project is to build a platform so that the suppliers, manufacturers, and consumers can interact with each other in an easier way via a standard platform. The current directory listing provided by JAKIM and HDC is inconvenient to the user. So, by plotting data straight onto the map will be much more easier for users to analyze the data.

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In this codeigniter tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create a blog post with comment function with CodeIgniter 2.0.2. You can download the code or just preview the sample first. In this version of code, I’ve created a simple template for our blog.

You can preview the part 1 of this tutorial at Create a simple blog using CodeIgniter 2.0 – Part 1

1. Create a table for comment

--
-- Table structure for table `comment`
--

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `comment` (
`comment_id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`entry_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
`comment_name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`comment_email` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`comment_body` text NOT NULL,
`comment_date` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (`comment_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `comment`
--

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