CSC 341: The Week beginning Feb. 26

• Homework:
  
  Watch and summarize the following (or make demo pages):
  Beginner PHP Tutorial - 63 - Using the Header to Force Page Redirect
  Beginner PHP Tutorial - 64 - ob_start
  Beginner PHP Tutorial - 29 - die and exit Functions
  Beginner PHP Tutorial - 73 - Setting PHP Sessions
  
  
  Due: Mar. 7
  
  
• Monday:
  
  Test 1B
  
  
• Wednesday:
  
  Demo of imagettftext (ttf -- true type font) Font.php Font.zip
  
  I had to replace
  
  $font ='ilits.ttf';
  
  with
  
  $font = dirname(__FILE__) . '/ilits.ttf';
  
  in more recent versions of PHP servers.
  
  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: Mar. 9