The Magic of PHP + MySQL

It’s safe to say that nearly every website that’s up-to-date these days is using some form of content management system (CMS). While there are a ton of great free options that provide us with a CMS to power a website (WordPress, Drupal, etc.), it doesn’t hurt to peek under the hood and get a feel for how these systems work.

To get our feet wet as back-end developers, we’ll be creating a simple PHP class that will:

• Create a database
• Connect to a database
• Display a form with two fields
• Save ...

A 404 error on the web is what a web server responds with when it is tasked with serving up a resource that it can’t find.

1. It should still look like your website

If you don’t specifically tell your web server how to handle 404 errors, it will serve up a very plain and generic looking error page. That just says something like “Not Found – The requested URL was not found on this server.” on a plain white page. This is an unhelpful and rather painful roadblock for a user. A 404 page should look like an ...