CSC 341: The Week beginning Sept. 9

Homework:

Read and summarize the related articles http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067564/How-To-Use-HTML-Meta-Tags and http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp

Watch the videos REGEX Tutorial Regular Expressions (youtube video by Derek Banas) and PHP Basics: Regular Expressions (youtube video by betterphp). Write a regular expression for the following:
- your fullname as well as your first initial and last name
- a social security number
- a credit card number
- a Canadian postal code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_codes_in_Canada
Watch the video 18 PHP FILTERS (a youtube video by djhashkandy) write a page that has the user enter an email address (like the first week's homework). Test that the user's email entry has the correct format first using a regular expression and then using a PHP filter. (You might also want to see http://www.w3schools.com/php/func_filter_var.asp or http://php.net/manual/en/function.filter-var.php )

Due: Sept. 16
Monday:

Go over PHP_Week_3.zip

LAB 1. Make an HTML request page and a PHP response page like those shown in the figure below.

Use the htmlspecialchars method (http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlspecialchars.php) and trim method (http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.trim.php) on the data brought in from the text input.

Due: Sept. 16
Wednesday

Populating a drop-down select with options from parallel arrays in PHP: State_drop_down_select.php and State_drop_down_select.zip
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php and http://php.net/manual/en/function.sizeof.php

Populating a drop-down select with options from an associative array in PHP: State_drop_down_select_2.php and State_drop_down_select_2.zip
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php and

ValidationDemo.html and ValidationDemo.zip

Lab
1. Write a php page that uses an associative array to populate a drop-down select with grades and corresponding weights (A is 4.000, A- is 3.667, B+ is 3.333, etc.)
2. Write a HTML request and PHP response page that validates a URL entered by the user. Also write a regular expression for a classroom number having the format like H-155 (that is a capital letter, followed by a dash, followed by 2 to 3 digits. Then have the user enter a room number and validate it.

Due: Sept. 18