Tonino and Narayan show how to use PHPMailer - a dead simple email sending library for PHP. Send email from your local machine or an SMTP relay easily ..read more

Learn how to add a custom field to a Flarum user account. Users will be able to set this custom field from their profile page, and admins will be able to edit it too ..read more

Learn about Insphpect, a tool that scans your PHP code for object-oriented programming techniques that hinder code reusability and flexibility ..read more

Need to collect data through a web form? Learn the basics of how to set up PHP to collect user-submitted data that you can then store or send via email ..read more

Attention Laravel lovers! The Livewire framework for Laravel can help you build awesome, dynamic interfaces without writing a whole lot of JavaScript ..read more

There are so many ways to set up your PHP development environment, but using Docker is the current best practice. Let's walk through how to do it properly ..read more

Need to authenticate requests to a server? Learn what JWTs are and how to use them instead of sessions to authenticate your users via API calls ..read more

MongoDB is a cross-platform, open-source, NoSQL database, used by many modern Node-based web applications to persist data. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to install Mongo, then start using it to store and query data. I’ll also look at how to interact with a Mongo database from within a Node program, and also highlight some of the differences between Mongo and a traditional relational database (such as MySQL) along the way. Terminology and Basic Concepts MongoDB is a document-oriented database. This means that it doesn’t use tables and rows to store its data, but inste ..read more

This sponsored article was created by our content partner, BAW Media. Thank you for supporting the partners who make SitePoint possible. Image optimization is a big deal when it comes to website performance. You might be wondering if you’re covering all the bases by simply keeping file size in check. In fact, there’s a lot to consider if you truly want to optimize your site’s images. Fortunately, there are image processing tools and content delivery networks (CDNs) available that can handle all the complexities of image optimization. Ultimately, these services can save you time and resources ..read more

When styling websites or PWAs with CSS, you should analyze how CSS resources will affect performance. In this tutorial, we’ll use various tools and related techniques to help build a better PWA by focusing on CSS performance. Specifically, we’ll remove the unused CSS, inline the critical path CSS, and minify the resulting code. The techniques can also be used to improve the performance of general websites and apps. We’ll be focusing on CSS performance for PWAs since they should be fast and feel native on user devices. Progressive web apps (PWAs) are web experiences that bring the best of both ..read more