Papermashup.com the blog of Ashley Ford
Blog URL http://papermashup.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags PHP, Ashley Ford, Papermashup, JavaScript, Social Media, Design, Development
Papermashup.com is the blog of Ashley Ford a web developer and designer from London. I write tutorials on PHP, Jquery, Mootools, and social media.
Latest Blog Posts
- Introduction to OAuth on Apr 15, 2009 in API OAuth
OAuth allows you to share your private online resources (photos, videos, contact list, bank accounts etc..) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out your username and password. There are many reasons why you should not share yo...
- PHP variable variables on Apr 7, 2009 in PHP variables
Over the coming weeks I’m going to be writing some posts on object orientated programming in PHP5, but to get us started there are a few techniques that we need to know, so today I’m going to be looking at variable variables. Naming conve...
- Compress your HTML code using PHP on Apr 2, 2009 in PHP Tutorials Uncategorized compress XHTML
When we write code we love to format it nicely adding tabs, line breaks and indentations, but the end user isn’t interested in how lovely the source code is, they just want the page content, so this script strips out all the line breaks and spa...
- 15 of the best business cards on Mar 31, 2009 in Design Uncategorized Web Tools Business Cards
Here’s a short but sweet list of a few of the best business cards that I’ve come across on the internet for a bit of design inspiration. I often find things like this useful and often fill the gaps on a design project, especially if you g...
- Introduction to PHP while loops on Mar 24, 2009 in PHP Tutorials While loops
This is just a quick introduction for beginners getting started with PHP and using while loops. You will quickly find that while loops are used regularly to cycle through specific data. So here’s a little code snippet of a simple while loop in...
- Increase a PHP scripts execution time limit on Mar 23, 2009 in PHP Tutorials
I’m working on a project right now that uses a PHP crontab to run a heavy script, and the problem I faced was the server kept timing out because by default PHP has a time limit for script execution. There’s an easy way around this by add...
- Display your Feedburner stats on Mar 20, 2009 in API Blogging Downloads PHP Tutorials Wordpress
I’ve been away for the last week. My wife and I bought a flat in North London and finally moved in on March 16th. So I’m currently without the internet and won’t have it until the end of March which is frustrating when I want to upd...




