Many people start learning a new programming language with a simple program. It is called “Hello world!”. But even this simple program can be written badly in PHP. In this post, I want to show you a good way to write “Hello world!”.
There are many ways to stop code duplication in classes. The simplest way is inheritance. But what if a class needs code from many different classes? PHP does not allow multiple inheritance. So the only way is to use traits. A good trait works well in any class. This post shows you how to write a good trait.
It is not easy to split one big service into smaller services. A common way to do this is to load parts with extra requests. But some parts are important for SEO. If you load these parts with AJAX, your search ranking can go down. In this case, Server Side Include, or SSI for short, can help.
Continue readingBuild a Website with Nginx and SSI, Part 1 – BasicsWelcome to a series of articles about ways to run PHP scripts. I will show you other ways to run your scripts. You do not always need the usual Apache/Nginx + PHP-FPM setup. In this first part, we look at the easiest method. This is the server built into PHP.
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