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In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process.

In this fourth part of a series, I demonstrate how to use all the composite view classes defined previously for generating a simple yet dynamic web page using a single rendering method. This example shows the real functionality of the Composite View pattern when it comes to rendering individual web page sections (partials) by using uncluttered, easy-to-follow client code.

In this conclusion to a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to validate inputs, handle hashing, use the MCrypt package, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

In this third part of a series on the Composite View pattern, I develop a concrete class derived from the abstract parent built previously. This new class will be responsible for creating simple view objects.

In this second part of a series, I demonstrate how to create a concrete composite view class, capable of rendering single and multiple view templates via the same “render()” method. The definition of this brand new class not only shows the logic that drives the Composite View pattern, but reveals how the pattern takes advantage of the benefits offered by Composition.

In this second part of a three-part series on secure PHP programming, you'll learn how to hide the fact that you're using PHP to drive your site, how to hide sensitive data, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

The Yahoo Site Explorer Inbound Links API comes in handy for a variety of purposes. You can get all sorts of data from it using PHP, from counting your backlinks to analyzing where they're coming from. This article will show you how to build a backlink checker tool that can do this and more.

The Composite View design pattern offers users the versatility of handling single objects and collections through the same interface. But some programmers hesitate to use it due to its tricky implementation. Hesitate no longer; this multi-part series will take you step by step through some of the best ways to use the Composite View design pattern, complete with code samples to show you the way.

This is the second part of the Facebook PHP API tutorial. The first part ran on August 11. It covered the most basic features, such as adding the basic Facebook “Like” button, the “Recommendations” plugin and registering your applications in Facebook to get an Application ID and Secret key. In this part, we'll delve deeper.

Long before a website goes live, you need to take its online security into consideration -- to be ready for the attackers even before they might gain access. This three-part article series will warn you of what to watch out for, particularly when configuring PHP, and help you to secure your website. It is excerpted from chapter 21 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

If you are a PHP developer interested in learning the PHP API applications of Facebook, then this tutorial can help you get started. Keep reading and you'll soon know not only how to add Facebook features to your website, but how to develop your own Facebook applications.

In this conclusion to a five-part article series on Web Services, you'll learn how to create a SOAP server, add server functions, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

In this fourth part of a five-part series on Web Services, you'll learn about SimpleXML objects, SOAP, and more. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).

In this third part of a five-part series on Web Services, we'll wrap up our discussion of MagpieRSS and move on to SimpleXML, an intuitive methodology for processing XML structures. This article is excerpted from chapter 20 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).