Optimizing High Traffic Massive Data Websites

The big dilemma in web development is that, on the one hand, web pages are expected to do more and more, while on the other hand, are expected to load instantaneously.  A web page that takes longer than 2 seconds to load is considered slow.  By 10 seconds many users give up, and 20 seconds …

Developing multilingual websites using PHP, part 2 – database connection character sets for MySQL

The problem     Ok.  I did everything it said in the previous article, and both my database and my site are working in UTF-8.  Still, anything in Hebrew I enter into PHPMyAdmin comes up as question marks on my site.  If I enter in data from the website, it comes up as gibberish on …