CodeIgniter UserGuide Firefox Extension
Posted in Web Development on December 3rd, 2008 by Simon
This simple Firefox extension allows quick(er), easy access to the CodeIgniter User Guide. The User Guide is actualy incorporated into the extension for speed, but you can still access the online version for the most up-to-date version.
If you’re not familiar with CodeIgniter, it is a light-weight MVC framework for PHP. It isn’t nearly as large as PEAR, Cake or Zend - but it is very easy to get the hang of, and has a lot of nice useful features
If you like this sort of thing, there is also one for jQuery.
Awesome extension. You’re quickly becoming my favorite extension developer
I can understand why.
I’m using Firefox 3 on Mac. “CI” doesn’t show up in the menu bar - it’s just blank.
great add-on! thanks for sharing this useful extension.
No luck on Firefox 3 on Mac.
It shows up as a “blank” menu between the “Window” and “Help” menu on Firefox 3. Clicking on the “blank” will drop down the menu
Yes, this extension is so cool!
Mac Firefox 3 users FIX:
Modify the xul file to get the menu to be visible:
Open the following file with a text editor like TextMate:
Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[PROFILEID].default/extensions/cimenu@kintek.com.au/chrome/content/myOverlay.xul
where USERNAME and PROFILEID are unique to your system.
Look for this line, near the top:
change it to:
Save your file (if prompted to overwrite the file do so).
Restart your browser and you should see a new menu item “CI” in the menu bar.
According to
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL/PopupGuide/Menus
“It’s possible to place other elements on a menubar, but remember that they will not appear on a Macintosh. ”
Which I am guessing is why there is an issue with the image attribute of the menu node.
gah! my xml was stripped from my post above. Let’s try that again
Look for :
<menu class=”menu-iconic” image=”chrome://CodeIgniterMenu/content/images/ci.png” id=”menu-ci” accesskey=”C” position=”8″>
Change to:
<menu class=”menu-iconic” label=”CI” image=”chrome://CodeIgniterMenu/content/images/ci.png” id=”menu-ci” accesskey=”C” position=”8″>
Hi there.
This is an awesome extension! =)
But could you made her avaliable from another menu? Like the web developer extension, that gives us the ability to put an icon by the searchengine box.
Is that possible?
The thing is, I use the Tiny Menu extension, so it’s hard for me to go to the CI’s menu… =(
Amazing extension !
Would it be possible to get it updated with the latest version of CI user guide ?
very useful extension!
Good work, keep your cerebral fluids coming this way
Thank you very much.
Toopixel, you can update the user guide in this extension.
Simply download the latest version of the user guide from the CodeIgniter site or from SVN.
Then copy it to :
Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[PROFILEID].default/extensions/cimenu@kintek.com.au/chrome/content/user_guide/
If there are new pages you can update the menu to point to those pages by manually updating
Users/[USERNAME]/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[PROFILEID].default/extensions/cimenu@kintek.com.au/chrome/content/myOverlay.xul
Bear in mind the paths I am providing are for a Mac. The location of the Application files for Firefox changes slightly for PC and Linux.
Thanks for supporting this extension, natebot.
It has now been updated to include the latest version of the User Guide. Updating the version at mozilla addons too.
perfect, just what i was looking for
we need the last update
Firefox 3.5 support added.
Any suggestions for future releases would be welcomed.
Well i love this a lot. Please upgrade it to the latest CI 1.7.2