CS 350: Class Agenda for Day 19 of Web Development 1

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Agenda for Day 19 of CS 350

Announcements
- University Announcements
Quiz 2 returned today
- Overall Mean: 85%
- Short Answer Questions mean: 14.4 out of 20 points possible (10 @ 2 points each)
- Programming Problem mean: 28.3 out of 30 points possible
Lab Assignments
- Lab 7 returned today
  - Completion time: 2.1 hours
  - Mean: 8.4 out of 10
- Lab 8 due at the start of class today
- Lab 9 cancelled
Project 1 Milestones
- Memorandum 4 describing detailing major sources for references due Tuesday (one per team)
Reading for today
- php.net: A simple tutorial
Today's topics and learning objectives
After today's class, you should be able to
- Explain the role of server-side scripting languages
- Explain PHP's history and purpose
  - 1995: Personal Home Page Tools or PHP: Hypertext Pre-processor
  - Open Source, platform independent, database independent (MySQL dominates)
- Develop and edit simple PHP Web pages
  - Files use the .php extension
  - Role of PHP interpreter
  - Setup Abyss Web server
    - Create three folders on your U:\ drive
      - htdocs
      - cgi-bin
      - log
  - Setup HTML-Kit to work with PHP and the Abyss Web server
- Use PHP in simple Web pages: A php.net: A simple tutorial for PHP
  - echo and print methods
  - PHP variables
  - Data types (settype)