Jason Ashdown's Blog of Wonders

The latest version of CL Auth now includes example files to help you understand how to use the functions.

You can download the lastest version CL Auth v0.2.5 now.

I’ve just completed taking the “A List Apart” survey for 2008. It was a set of 48 quick questions about what its like to be a web designer.

If you are a web designer, I suggest that you show your support and fill in the survey so they can get the most accurate figures. They do publish them at the end of the year for everyone to see.

Last years results were interesting. It will be even more interesting to see how much they have changed this year!

Just to top off my daily posts, I have been perfecting a PHP Validation class over the past few months.

At work I tend to do a lot of registration forms for competitions, subscriptions, newsletters, contact forms etc.

So I went to the trouble of creating a very quick and easy validation class that I could include into my projects at a drop of a hat. Inspired by CodeIgniters validation class, it has very similar features. Including helper functions.

It’s even UTF-8 friendly (except for the email function). Please feel free to download and test it out yourself. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I had to integrate a photo gallery for one of my work projects Sony Alpha, a new digital SLR camera from Sony. My task was to display both the Exif data and the image at the same time.

For this project I had to create something new which I haven’t found on the internet before. It uses the popular Lytebox extension (a flavour of the popular Lightbox 2 javascript library) combined with a new javascript plugin that gathers Exif Data for photos via javascript with AJAX. Read the rest of this entry »