CSC 341: The Week beginning Oct. 9

• Homework:
  
  Read and summarize the following articles:
  Alphabet’s Internet balloons will try to restore cell service in Puerto Rico
  Puerto Rico in talks with Tesla for batteries; Sonnen to help build microgrids
  
  Due: Oct. 18
  
  
• Monday:
  
  Test 1 -- Part B
  
  
• Wednesday:
  
  Demo of imagettftext (ttf -- true type font) Font.php Font.zip
  Demo of str_split, sin, cos and imagettftext Font_2.php Font_2.zip
  
  Demo: Seeing error messages on a production server
  Error.php (has error probably won't open on alpha server). Compare to ErrorWrapper.php (previous file included in another -- now error message displays on alpha server) ErrorWrapper.zip
  
  Demo: Read a local XML file (simplexml_load_file):
  XML_Reader.php XML_Reader.zip uses the food menu example from http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_examples.asp
  Demo Add jQuery Accordion functionality to previous
  XML_Reader_Accordion.php XML_Reader_Acordion.zip
  Demo: Uses CURL and SimpleXMLElement to read and parse a remote xml file
  XML_Reader_CURL.php XML_Reader_CURL.zip
  
  
• Friday:
  
  XML Lab Part A: CD Catalog (local file) Download the CD Catalog XML file from https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_examples.asp. Then write a PHP page to read a local copy of the file and display the information.
  
  XML Lab Part B: Plant Catalog (remote file) Look at the Plant Catalog XML file from https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_examples.asp. Then write a PHP page to read the remote file and display the information.
  
  Lab: Create Target Logo using PHP
  Target.doc Uses BLUEHIGD.TTF
  
  Due: Oct. 20