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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).

If you're working on a captcha system for your PHP-based website, you may be faced with an interesting challenge. How do you make your system too hard for spam bots to read, but not too hard for humans? This is especially worrying in the wake of bots that can harness OCR for reading captchas. This article explains how to increase the difficulty of a captcha system and test it to make sure it meets your requirements.

In this second part of a five-part series on Web Services, you will learn how to install and use MagpieRSS, a popular RSS parser. 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).

Asirra (Animal Species Image Recognition for Restricting Access) is a captcha technology developed by Microsoft. This article will explain how it's different from other captcha systems, the benefits of using Asirra, and how to set it up on your PHP-based website.

If you are planning to use PHP to create and interact with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application, then you can use the PHP Excel class. It can be a little tricky to use, however, especially for beginners. This tutorial will walk you through the basics and show you how to customize it for your own Excel implementation.