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  1. HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know—Part 1

    HTTP: The Protocol Every Web Developer Must Know—Part 1

    Tutorial Intermediate

    HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It's a stateless, application-layer protocol for communicating between distributed systems, and it's the...

  2. Using PHP urlencode and urldecode

    Using PHP urlencode and urldecode

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this tutorial, you'll learn why you need to encode or decode your URLs and how to use the built-in PHP functions to do so.

  3. WordPress Troubleshooting: Error Establishing a Database Connection

    WordPress Troubleshooting: Error Establishing a Database Connection

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this quick article, we’ll discuss how to troubleshoot and fix the "Error establishing a database connection" error on a WordPress site.

  4. Get Real-Time Exchange Rates With exchangeratesapi

    Get Real-Time Exchange Rates With exchangeratesapi

    Tutorial Beginner

    exchangeratesapi is a RESTful API service that allows customers to query current and historical currency data for most countries worldwide.

  5. How to Parse JSON in PHP

    How to Parse JSON in PHP

    Tutorial Beginner

    This tutorial will teach you how to read a JSON file and convert it to an array in PHP. Learn how to parse JSON using the json_decode() and json_encode()...

  6. How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP

    How to Increase max_execution_time in PHP

    Tutorial Beginner

    In this quick article, we’ll explore the different options that allow you to increase the maximum number of seconds a script is allowed to run before it’s...

  7. HTTP Headers for Dummies

    HTTP Headers for Dummies

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Whether you're a programmer or not, you have seen it everywhere on the web. Even your first Hello World PHP script sent HTTP headers without you realizing...

  8. How to Work With Cookies in PHP

    How to Work With Cookies in PHP

    Tutorial Beginner

    You might have heard about cookies, but what exactly are they, and what can we do with them? In this tutorial, we will focus on the basics of cookies, and...

  9. Scrape the Web at Scale With the scrapestack API

    Scrape the Web at Scale With the scrapestack API

    Tutorial Beginner

    Using the scrapestack API, you can quickly and efficiently scrape web pages from anywhere in the world and turn them into actionable data that you can put to...

  10. How to Upload a File in PHP (With an Example)

    How to Upload a File in PHP (With an Example)

    Tutorial Beginner

    Learn the basics of file upload in PHP. Firstly, we’ll go through the PHP configuration options that need to be in place for successful file uploads....

  11. How to Use Raygun to Identify and Diagnose Web Performance Problems

    How to Use Raygun to Identify and Diagnose Web Performance Problems

    Tutorial Beginner

    Web development is hard, and we often release software that is slow and unrefined. In this article, I will walk you through my experience using Raygun’s...

  12. Download and Install WordPress Via the Shell Over SSH and With WP-CLI

    Download and Install WordPress Via the Shell Over SSH and With WP-CLI

    Tutorial Beginner

    Installing WordPress often takes a lot of steps: downloading and uncompressing a zip file, uploading files to the server, and setting up the database and...