"The Horse's Mouth" is an online magazine - the ramblings of Graham Ellis. I'm very fortunate to come across a lot of interesting people in my work, and they inspire me to think and to write. You'll find a mixture of technical tips on the subjects we teach, things we have learnt from our own website and wider, and pictures, thoughts and wider comment.

The beauty of the net is that you can search and read as much - or as little - as you like. You can even add your comments if you wish; although we can't offer you the same anonimity nor a "freedom of speech", I'm going to encourage you to post of views that don't agree with mine and only in what I consider to be exceptional circumstances will I remove or modify your material.


Passing variable between PHP pages - hidden fields, cookies and sessions
Even early on, separate out your program from your HTML!
Arrays in PHP - contain different and even mixed data types
The woman, the television, the bullock and Darlington
MVC and Frameworks - a lesson from first principles in PHP
Handling requests to a forum - the background process
Apache httpd - a robust, open source web server
Backups by crossover between network centres - setting up automatic scp transfers
Sessions, forms and validation in CodeIgniter - early examples
Seamless, integrated IT - we have a long way to go!
CodeIgniter - an excellent PHP framework with an easy start point
Curl and curling from PHP
The highs and lows of customer service - Cheltenham
stdClass in PHP - using an object rather than an associative array
An overpractical test of our backup strategy!
Using web services to access you data - JSON and RESTful services
On Salford Docks - mind over matter?
Frameworks - learning through exploring and understanding data sources
The PHP course this week is in... Salford
On reading a new hotel review
A couple of new fast-start PHP examples
Business meetings in Melksham - Well House Manor
Art, Catering, Transport - Melksham Campus Elements - reaching local experts
Looking for Creative Design, Catering and Transport inputs to help with Melksham Campus
Over a hundred welcoming businesses - Melksham Town Centre
Linux Web Server - User Roles, User Accounts, and shared administration
What to do on a wet weekend in Melksham?
Bus stop audit - what is missing?
Bright Spring Morning
Report on the last year - Melksham Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Melksham Without Parish Council
Report on the last year - Melksham Railway Developement Group for Melksham Without Parish Council
Seed Swap at Well House Manor
Using Pygments to colour our training examples
Cascading Style Sheets and formatting your web page
HTML tags uses in these blog articles
Special characters in HTML
The VERY basics of a web page ... and web site
Official Star ratings for hotels - still worth having?
Easier public transport from Melksham to Bristol Airport
Showing what programming errors look like - web site pitfall