Web-scraping is essentially the task of finding out what input a website expects and understanding the format of its response. For example, Recovery.gov takes a user’s zip code as input before ...

Moving information from an HTML form into a database is a two-step design process. First, create an entry HTML form capable of passing information to a secondary file. Next, create a Hypertext ...

It's easy to outgrow the static Web pages you've set up to promote your business. Though easy to update, static HTML pages cannot support sophisticated, interactive functions such as an online store.

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...