Security is not just important when you are doing financial transactions - an insecure Web site can be used by others for malicious purposes to launch attacks against other Web sites. There are a few must-knows for anyone who ventures out into the world of PHP Web development. In this webinar John Coggeshall will focus on the absolute necessities when doing secure Web development.

There's still time to register and get in on the hour long session (hosted by John Coggeshall). The time for the event is 9:00 am PST (GMT -07:00, San Francisco).

In this series, which is comprised of three articles, I'll provide you with numerous code samples showing how to implement this useful pattern, ranging from building a simple application for managing user information to creating a decent blogger.

As mentioned, their goal is to create a simple blogging application (eventually), but for now they just need to lay the foundation. They start with an introduction to the pattern via the creation of the User and UserServer classes. Next up is the creation of the UserInterpreter class to handle the requests and pass them along to the UserSaver. Finally, they show it in use, saving inputted user information into an array.

This first part starts from the base they've already set (installation/configuration) and actually gets into the code.

This article is the first of a series of PHP guides that aim at teaching you the basics of PHP programming. By now, I hope you would have set up your system to start actual PHP programming. Lets start PHP programming.

They keep things simple and look at topics like:

• What are tags?
• Web Page Parsing
• Operators and Operands
• Variables

You may have already encountered situations in coding PHP applications in which you would like to use inheritance, but could not for one reason or another. Fortunately, there is an alternative for these situations that can help you achieve the same result. In this first article in a two-part series, you'll learn about the adapter pattern.

They start off with the basics of the Adapter pattern and move quickly into the first definition of a class using them - a directory processor. Once that's built, they show how it all works with a more practical example.

If you use PHP 5 to build web-based applications that access a database, you might want to consider SQLite. A "lighter" option than MySQL, this database may still suit your purposes if you don't need all of MySQL's bells and whistles. This three-part series covers many of SQLite's most useful features.

Their post today, part one talks about the basics of the protocol and how to get started with it in PHP5. Since it's enabled by default, the chances of it being on your installation are great. They only really look at grabbing data from the database in this part, saving pushing data back in for another time.

The way how events are raised and how listeners are attached on the events is a part of a core in many modern applications. It plays an important role in some enterprise design patterns (MVC, for example).

He starts with the basics of event handling - some of the terms and descriptions of basic functionality that any good event handler would have. He describes the most common setup of an event-interaction relationship. Then, it's on to the code, showing first three different ways to call functions (by name, by variable, and by callback).

He finishes it off with a functional example that responds to a a call to fireEvent (five times) and handles each by calling the function in the callback information (myFunction).

Day one (10.07.06) saw the start of the meeting, and included a three hour tutorial session giving people a crash course to what PHP is and how it functions at a basic level. Pizza for lunch, then right back into the classes - more basics, some XML talk, and XML-RPC/REST/SOAP as well (two different tracks).

Day two (10.07.06) is described in this post along with a summary of how the event went and the feedback from those attending. Topics today included best practices, PHP5's advanced OOP features, "Enterprise PHP", and a final keynote.

Keep an eye out on the PHPWeekender website for complete information, slides, and examples from the event as well.

If you understand german, here is your very last chance to participate at two very, very free training-sessions about eZ Components! Session One will find place on 20th of september and will cover the essentials of eZ Components. Session two comes to you just two days after on 22th of september and will look in detail at eZ Mail and eZ Template. Tobias Schlitt will be your instructor and show all that fine stuff practically with an example-application, just written for the show!

The training is being offered by phpzertifizierung.eu and the eZ crew. You can sign up now for both session one and session two if you'd like to attend.

In this first part of a new article series on PHP5 classes and objects you will be introduced to the basic concepts of using classes, the constructor and destructor methods and class inheritance.

They start with some of the basics of class building and object oriented programming to get the ball rolling. Next is a look at the constructor/deconstructor and inheritance in classes (extending one with another).

We generally thought about making a whole day event, where we will teach people PHP basics in the morning and some advanced stuff (like best practices, usage of components, etc.) in the afternoon.

After sharing the idea with a local computer science department, they already have over 50 people interested in attending. If there's enough interest in attending, they have thought about expanding it out into a two-day event, including the development of a sample application as part of the course.

If you're interested at all in taking this course and are in the area, let them know by leaving a comment on Toias' blog.