CSC 341 (even): Week of 1/25/16

CSC 341 (even): The Week beginning Jan. 25

Homework:

1. Read and summarize History of PHP

2. Watch and summarize the following two videos:
Beginner PHP Tutorial - 65 - Getting Visitors IP Address
Beginner PHP Tutorial - 66 - Better Way to Get Visitors IP Address

3. On your home computer, laptop, or virtualized system on an external drive, install a local server such as XAMPP. (If you are already familiar with an alternative such as WAMP or MAMP, you may use that.) Paste a screen capture of your browser pointing to localhost and showing the default file (index.php).

(Note that the apache (web) service may by default be turned off and may need to be turned on using the XAMPP Control Panel.)

Possible resources:
Due: Feb. 2
Tuesday:

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)

Demo: Drop-down select
Magritte.zip (drop-down select input, zipped up files)
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)

Lab: Salad Works
Salad Works Lab Instruction (Word)
SaladWorks.html (Head start on HTML file)
PHP number_format() Function might help getting two decimal places for the money.
Submit zipped up files.

Lab: Drop-down select with grades
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.)
Submit zipped up files.

Labs Due: Feb. 2

Possible resources: