Webdesign Notes

University of North Texas
Department of Library and Information Science

Notes & Scripts

Stuff by J Newland

• Intro to web design presentation
• Tag Cloud
• Email Form
• Library Card Form
• Sticky email form

Stuff by Liz Castro

• All examples from HTML book
• Generic script to display forms – demo
• Generic email script source – modified version for class

Scripts by Larry Ullman (PHP book 4th ed. scripts – source)

Ch 1 Getting Started w/ PHP
• Print plain text – Script 1.3 (test-source)
• Print HTML – Script 1.4 (test-source)
• Print whitespace – Script 1.5 (test-source)
• Commenting – Script 1.6 (test-source)

Ch 2 Variables in PHP
• print_r Function – Script 2.1 (test-source)
• Commenting variables – Script 2.2 (test-source)
• Variables – Script 2.3 (test-source)
• Quotes – Script 2.4 (test-source)

Ch 3 HTML Forms & PHP
• Basic form handling – Script 3.4 (test-source)
• Error reporting – Script 3.6 (test-source-error log)
• Using the POST Array – Script 3.7 (test-source)
• Use GET to send data – Script 3.8 (test-source)

Ch 4 Numbers in PHP
• Using arithmetic expressions – Script 4.2 (test-source)
• Formatting numbers – Script 4.3 (test-source)
• Operator precedence – Script 4.4 (test-source)
• Increment/decrement – Script 4.5 (test-source)
• Random numbers – Script 4.6 (test-source)

Ch 5 Strings in PHP
• Concatenation – Script 5.2 (test-source)
• Magic quotes – Script 5.3 (test-source – add slashes)
• PHP & HTML – Script 5.4 (test-source)
• URL encoding – Script 5.5 & 5.6 (test-source for handle_post.php – source for thanks.php)
• String replacement – Script 5.7 (test-source for handle_post.php – source for thanks.php)
• Other string stuff – Script 5.8 (test-source for handle_post.php – source for thanks.php)

Ch 6 Control Structures in PHP
• if statements – Script 6.2 (test-source)
• if-else statements – Script 6.3 (test-source)
• Relational operators – Script 6.4 (test-source)
• Logical operators & nested if’s – Script 6.5 (test-source)
• elseif statements- Script 6.6 (test-source)
• Switch statements – Script 6.7 (test-source)
• for loops – Script 6.8 (test-source)

Ch 7 Using Arrays in PHP
• Creating an array – Script 7.1 (test-source)
• Adding things to an array – Script 7.2 (test-source)
• Using foreach loops – Script 7.3 (test-source)
• Multidimensional arrays – Script 7.4 (test-source)
  • foreach alternative (test-source)
  • var_dump alternatve (test-source)
• Sorting an array – Script 7.5 (test-source)
• Using implode & explode – Script 7.7 (test-source)
• Creating an array from a form – Script 7.9 (test-source)

Ch 8 Creating Web Apps & Ch 10 Creating Functions
• Using headers and footers (demo – source: header-index-footer)
• Sticky email form without functions (test-source)
• Sticky email form with functions (test-source)

Ch 10 Intro to Databases
• Connect to MySQL Database (test – source)
• Source to create the database
• Source to create a table
• Add an entry (test-source)
• View the blog (test-source)
• Source to edit an entry
• Source to delete an entry