Supporting: Contact Hours 19 to 23

Session Dates: Tuesday 20th March 2012 – Wednesday 28th March 2012

Prepared by: Dr Chris P. Jobling

Adapted from: Robert W. Sebasta, Programming the World-Wide Web, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 2006.

You can try the PHP examples from the lectures by following the following links. All the scripts have been installed in my virtual directory /eg-259/examples/ on the web server eng-hope.swan.ac.uk. You'll find the source code in the lecture notes.

• Example 1: A simple example to illustrate a PHP document < today.php, today.php @ localhost >
• Example 2: An example to illustrate loops and arithmetic < powers.php, powers.php @ localhost >

• Example 3: An example to illustrate several of the sorting functions < sorting.php, sorting.php @ localhost>
• Example 4: The < word_table.php, word_table.php @ localhost> example illustrates the use of functions and regular expressions

• Example 5: An simple popcorn ordering application in PHP < popcorn3.html, popcorn3.html @ localhost>

• Example 6: A Web Query from Perl CGI < carscgi.html, carscgi.html @ localhost> [for information on how this is done see the extra notes]
• Example 7: A Web Query from PHP < carsdata.html, carsdata.html @ localhost>
• Example 8: A Combined form and Web Query in PHP < access_cars2.php, access_cars2.php @ localhost>