Program 3 Assignment: Putting it all together, making your own web site

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Associated Lectures

Web site

Graded Parts (16.67% of grade, can't get an A without this one folks!)

• Put all files associated with your website in a directory called yourhomedir/www/Program3

 
• Writeup of initial web site design: You must hand in a 1-2 page writeup (handwritten and/or word processed) of your website design.  Answer the following questions.  (see demo website for an example writeup)
• What is the main theme of your website?  What information are you trying to get across?
• Who is your target audience?
• Draw some preliminary pictures of what your website is going to look like.
• How will you satisfy all of the required elements for your HTML and for your Applet or database?

• Required HTML elements (see demo for an example of these HTML elements in use)
• link to a page on the internet
• link to a local page (so you must have at least 2 HTML pages for your website)
• image
• html list: unordered, ordered, or dictionary

 
• Must also have a link to an applet or a database (MySQL+PHP) application which satisfy the requirements listed below

 

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Applet

Elements which must be used (see lecture) (see demo)

basic applet functions (must use init, other basic applet functions are optional)

init (required) (examples: Simple.java, Graph.java, HelloWorld.java, Scribble.java, DogYears.java)

paint (optional) (examples: Simple.java, Graph.java, HelloWorld.java)

start (optional) (examples: Simple.java, Jaleks.java)

stop (optional) (examples: Simple.java)

destroy (optional) (examples: Simple.java)

write some text to the screen either using drawString or by creating a Label

drawString (examples: Simple.java, Graph.java, HelloWorld.java)

Label (examples: DogYears.java, Jaleks.java, Scribble.java )

respond to a button push (Applet.action method) or mousedown (Applet.mouseDown method)

button push (examples: DogYears.java, Jaleks.java, Scribble.java )

mouse down (examples: Simple.java, Scribble.java )

Related Websites

Projects in Java website

Java Reference

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MySQL+PHP

Requirements (see CGI and PHP lecture, see MySQL lecture, see MySQL+PHP lecture) (see demo)

Create a mysql table (see MySQL Review lecture)

Use HTML form and PHP to do a query on the table data (examples: see search.php3 and the print_sidebar function in html_util.php3)

(Optional) Use HTML form and PHP to add data to table or update data in some way (examples: see buy.php3 for use of insert command in mysql_query)

Related web sites

MySQL Home Page

PHP Home Page

HTML Forms Tutorial

PHP+MySQL Tutorial