CSC 341: Week of 8/28/17

CSC 341: The Week beginning Aug. 28

Homework:

Answer the following questions in a Word document.
1. Distinguish between server-side scripting such as PHP and client-side scripting such as JavaScript.
  
  Possible resources:
  - Beginner PHP Tutorial - 1 - Introduction to PHP (youtube )
  - Programming PHP (Tatroe, MacIntyre & Lerdorf) chapter 1
  - PHP Manual > Getting Started
2. What happens if a file with PHP code is given the extension htm instead of php? In the browser view the page source of the .htm version and .php version. How do they differ?
3. Distinguish between PHP's GET and POST methods.
  
  Possible Resources:
  - Programming PHP (Tatroe, MacIntyre & Lerdorf) p. 177
  - Beginner PHP Tutorial - 69 - Working with $_GET Variables
  - Beginner PHP Tutorial - 70 - Working with $_POST Variables
  - php.net Documentation: $_GET
  - php.net Documentation: $_POST
4. Describe the following services and provide their "well-known port" numbers.
  - FTP
  - SSH
  - HTTP
  - SMTP
  Possible Resources:
  - Mr. Clarkson Talks About... Client-Server and Peer-Peer Network Models
  - Mr. Clarkson Talks About... Protocols and Port Numbers
5. Watch and summarize the video Open Source Basics (Youtube video by Intel Software)
Due: Sept. 6
Monday:

Course syllabus

Some silly examples of PHP variables:
PHP Bells:
Posted PHP: TheBells3.php
Zipped version: PHPBells.zip

Madlib:
Posted HTML form: Madlib.htm
Madlib.zip
Wednesday:

Demo: Radio buttons
HTML form and PHP handler showing radio button input (zipped up files)
Second radio button demo (zipped up files)
PHP - Radio Buttons (youtube)

Demo: Checkboxes
HTML form and PHP handler showing a list of checkboxes input (zipped up files)
Second checkbox demo (zipped up files)
Friday:

In order to buy more time for some people's external drives to come in, I will do more lecturing on user interfacing with PHP. Next week both Wed. and Fri. will be labs.

Demo: Drop-down select
http://www1.lasalle.edu/~blum/c341wks/Magritte/DropDownSelectDemo.html
Magritte.zip (drop-down select input, zipped up files)

Demo: Multi-select
MultiSelectExample.htm
MultiSelectExample.zip

State_drop_down_select.zip Creating drop-down select options from parallel arrays
State_drop_down_select_2.zip Creating drop-down select options from an associative array

Learn PHP: Arrays (youtube)
http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php (PHP documentation)
http://php.net/manual/en/function.sizeof.php (PHP documentation)
http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php (PHP documentation)

Distinguish between server-side scripting such as PHP and client-side scripting such as JavaScript.

Possible resources:

What happens if a file with PHP code is given the extension htm instead of php? In the browser view the page source of the .htm version and .php version. How do they differ?

Distinguish between PHP's GET and POST methods.

Possible Resources:

Describe the following services and provide their "well-known port" numbers.

Possible Resources:

Watch and summarize the video Open Source Basics (Youtube video by Intel Software)