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The following article is an excerpt from PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition, a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a professional web application. In this second tutorial in the series,...

The following article is an excerpt from PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja, 7th Edition, a hands-on guide to learning all the tools, principles, and techniques needed to build a professional web application. In this first tutorial of the series,...

Markdown is a fast and efficient way to write content for the Web. It’s easy to write, easy to read, and easily converted to HTML. It empowers writers and bloggers to write without the use of overcomplicated and visually exhausting code. T...

WordPress is a popular, easy-to-use, PHP-based content management system and blogging platform. Many enterprise organizations believe that WordPress is simply a platform used by smaller companies, entrepreneurs, freelancers and companies...

As more people shift to online shopping, small businesses and retailers have been pressured to build their own ecommerce stores to keep up. The good news is that creating an ecommerce store is fast and easy with WordPress. With the ...

This article was created in partnership with  Kinsta. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Local development is the practice of building, editing, and testing code on a local machine, wit...

If you’re like most business owners, you’re always looking for ways to improve your app’s performance. You want to make sure that your users have a positive experience and that they keep coming back. That’s why it’s essential to use a tool like HeadS...

If you’re an Apple ecosystem user, you probably use a Mac, iPhone, or iPad daily. What you may not know is that it’s possible to develop your own apps for these devices — and it’s not as hard as you might think! In this article, we’ll walk you throug...

HTML is an inherently fluid medium. Text and containers expand horizontally and vertically to use the available space. That fluidity made complex designs more difficult, so by the turn of the millennium, many sites adopted a fix...