For years, I’ve been using an early version of a PHP database access class written by a friend of mine (hi Max!). I’ve been tweaking it over and over again, spending way too much time on it considering the end result.
Well I’m tired of reinventing the wheel. Since it’s fifth installment, PHP provides an API [...]

In most cases, websites don’t necessarily need to be managed by sessions that end as soon as the users closes their browser. Most websites now offer to keep their session alive for whatever amount of time. This is really less of a hassle for your users and adds to the positive user experience.
Learning what not [...]

I think the worst part of the whole host transfer deal was the relatively old age of my last MySQL backup. I always keep updated versions of my PHP files close by, may it only be because I am always working on something new, so at least all the programming logic has migrated successfully.
However, all [...]