I was asked the other day how to get cURL to work with XAMPP and whether or not installing cURL was necessary. cURL is a module in PHP which comes prepackaged with XAMPP and XAMPP Lite. It is installed, however not enabled by default. To enable it, just follow these simple steps:

1. Locate XAMPP install directory
2. open php/php.ini
3. do a search for the word ‘curl’ and uncomment (remove the leading semicolon) that line
4. save & close
5. open apache/bin/php.ini
6. search for curl, uncomment as before
7. save & close
8. restart apache

Congratulations. cURL is now enabled for use!

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said,

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

That great quote helps to encapsulate the idea that all good web designers build off of the ideas of others. Web Design is constantly changing, and a great way to be successful in the industry is to build off of the most up-to-date and stylish websites out there. I have gathered together a list of 15 great CSS galleries that always offer updated galleries of websites that emphasize amazing design as well as great coding. I hope these help my fellow web developers to achieve greatness. After the list there is a poll to allow users to voice their opinions.
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