One of the most important aspects of setting up your development environment is the notion of DEV-PROD parity. This refers to the practice of making sure that the system that you develop an application on is as close as possible to the system that the application is eventually going to run on when shipped. This […]

For one of my website projects I wanted to create a very basic content management system. The plan was to have a header and footer template class, and include these from the ‘index.php’. The bit between the header and footer (‘content’) would then be pulled from another file, depending on the URL. The basic set-up […]