Term Test 2 will be on
Friday, March 19th, 2010
from 2-4pm (normal lecture time).
Theory topics to be covered on the second term test are the the Internet and e-Business overview, numbering systems, HTML
forms and "sticky" forms/data validation (see "Hand Outs and Lectures" page, Term Test 2 section).
There will be a closed book theory portion, followed by a open book practical portion (which will assess PHP including a form,
incorporating your header.php and footer.php files, basic data validation, from submission and basic calculations).
Term Test 2 Locations
Due to the large number of students, and the lack of networking in our C113 lecture hall, the term test has to be written in separate classes. Students should show up
in the following classrooms (subject to change please check the day of the test):
| Instructor (Lab Time) |
CRN |
Term Test Classroom |
| John Mather (1-3pm Mondays) |
|
Simcoe Building - Room J101
|
| Darren Puffer (10am-12pm Wednesdays) |
11859 |
Simcoe Building - Room J102
|
| Darren Puffer (3pm-5pm Wednesdays) |
11760 |
Simcoe Building - Room J102
|
| Stephen Franks (4-6pm Thursdays |
11761 |
Simcoe Building - Room J101
|
Course Overview
This course gives an overview of the infrastructure required to make WWW
applications work:
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Connecting with HTTP
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Editing documents with XHTML
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Using Cascading Style Sheets
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Server-side scripting with PHP
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Server databases with PostgreSQL
Due to the lack of network connectivity in our Friday lecture hall, quizzes are not logistically feasible. Based on this fact, the marks breakdown for the
course has been changed. To see the new allocation of marks check out the outline section on the Lectures/Handouts page.
Lab/test marks replied.
You will receive a email responding to the email submitted with a link to your
lab page. A brief description will be given as to any marks that have been lost
(if any). In addition to the link, try to include a brief description of the
pages that have your work to be assessed (if you have several pages to siff
through). The easier it is for your instructor to mark your work, the better.
Resources
- Course Server:
opentech.durhamc.on.ca/~pufferd/intn2201
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All assignments will be uploaded and viewed or run from Opentech, the course
server. This system runs OpenBSD, a free UNIX-like operating system, and the
Apache web server. It also runs the other server-side software required for the
course: the PHP script interpreter and the PostgreSQL database engine.
This server is separate
from the main college Information Technology Services such as Campus Pipeline,
the Novell servers, the ITIC faculty pages and the main college Web site.
The main help desk cannot help you with problems with this server!
- XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype tag
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The XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD includes everything in the strict DTD plus
deprecated elements and attributes (most of which concern visual presentation).
For documents that use this DTD, use this document type declaration.
Place the following at the top of all your course produce
html files:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
- Don't mail your HTML files with Campus Pipeline!
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The Campus Pipeline email system will change the content of your HTML files
when you email them to yourself. They add a big comment at the start of the
file, then add a letter 'x' to the front of HTML tags like
meta,
script and so on. They do this to prevent malicious Javascript and
other nastiness from being sent to your browser.
Unfortunately, it also means that your pages will NOT validate any more.
To get around this, upload your files to the opentech server directly with
Secure iXplorer or PSCP.
- Some extra links
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- Web Pages That Suck
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Don't repeat other peoples' mistakes. I hope your pages never make it to the
"Daily Sucker"
- The Web Standards Organisation
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Some more arguments about using proper Internet standards.
- PHP tutorial on PHP.NET
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Tutorial on the main PHP site
- Get started with PHP
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Another tutorial, this one on the commercial phpbuilder.com site.
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