By Jason Ashdown
For those budding PHP developers out there, you want to run your eyes over this!
http://www.mantisbt.org/
Mantis is a free Bug Tracking tool like Trac but without the SVN fuctionality.
Why is this useful? There are several reasons. It’s a quick and easy way to log any issues for any sized projects. Even if you need a simple “to-do” list for a small job, its a nice, tidy way on keeping yourself organised without the hassle of using SVN.
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By Jason Ashdown
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 more »
By Jason Ashdown

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 more »
By Jason Ashdown
CL Auth is finally in round 2 of BETA testing. BETA v0.2 offers better optimisation, new functions, better documentation and easier customisation. It also quashes some known bugs from the previous BETA.
Download or view the Documentation online.
By Jason Ashdown
I’ve published the first draft of the CL Auth Documentation online. I have placed it on this website so everybody can access it.