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Mastering cURL

preview cURL is a tool for transferring files and data with URL syntax, supporting many protocols including HTTP, FTP, TELNET and more. Initially, cURL was designed to be a command line tool. Lucky for us, the cURL library is also supported by PHP. In this article, we will look at some of the advanced features of cURL, and how we can use them in our PHP scripts.

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SQL For Beginners Part 2

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It is important for every web developer to be familiar with database interactions. In part two of the series, we will continue exploring the SQL language and apply what we’ve learned on a MySQL database. We will learn about Indexes, Data Types and more complex query structures.

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SQL for Beginners

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Most modern web applications today interact with databases, usually with a language called SQL. Lucky for us, this language is quite easy to learn. In this article, we are going to start with some basic SQL queries and use them to interact with a MySQL database.

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Top 15+ Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code

preview My third article for Nettuts was just published:

“Code readability is a universal subject in the world of computer programming. It’s one of the first things we learn as developers. Readable and maintainable code is something to be proud of in a finished product. We can share it with others, contribute to other projects, and reuse code from applications we wrote months or even years ago.

This article will detail the fifteen most important best practices when writing readable code.”

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HTTP Headers for Dummies

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Whether you’re a programmer or not, you have seen it everywhere on the web. At this moment your browsers address bar shows something that starts with “http://”. Even your first Hello World script sent HTTP headers without you realizing it. In this article we are going to learn about the basics of HTTP headers and how we can use them in our web applications.

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Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices

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Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It’s not only the DBA’s (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.

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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Use a PHP Framework

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PHP Frameworks have been receiving a lot of attention in the past few years from the web development community. What’s this hype all about?

If you look at PHP Job listings, you will often see “MVC Framework Experience” as one of their requirements. It is becoming one of those must-have skill sets for web developers.

There are pretty good reasons behind all of this. In this article we will explore why you, as a PHP programmer, should be using a PHP Framework.

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