Combining Javascript and CSS files and can tremendously reduce the number of HTTP requests your page make, making your website lighter and faster. It’s one of those tweaks to improve your website performance. This snippet doesn’t minify files, it just simply combines multiple files into single one.

In previous article I had created a RSS feed using PHP DOMDocument class, and today we are going to use PHP SimpleXML to create the same. PHP SimpleXML can be used to manipulate XML documents easily, it can read data from XML files/strings, and edit nodes and attributes. SimpleXML functions are part of PHP 5+, so everyone using PHP 5 and up requires no additional extensions to use its functions.

RSS makes it possible to syndicate latest website contents throughout the web seamlessly, whether you have a news website, blog or a normal website, you can break it down into discrete items and syndicated them via RSS. If you are using WordPress or any other popular CMS, you will find its own RSS system. But creating your custom RSS feed is also fairly easy using PHP.

HTML forms are an essential part of the web development process, allowing us to gather data from user inputs. We can use this data to send emails, change interfaces, layouts, or save it directly to a MySQL table. Today, we will create a simple HTML form to collect a user’s name, email, and message text, and use PHP to save the collected data into a MySQL database table. This is a common scenario in web development where we often need to store user data.