Help:COAP-3180/week8

Week 8 - COAP 3180

Term project presentation

(Monday)

• See Help:COAP-3180/term project term project page

Summary

(Monday)

• Final lecture, reminder of the most important subjects addressed etc.

Final exam

Main subjects:

(1) High level web application principles

• Simple web application architectures (tiers)
• CMS/CMF installation and configuration
• Using a WAMP server
• Database administration with PHPMyAdmin
• Simple reuse of PHP code, i.e. you may be asked to change "parameters"

(2) Creating simple HTML Web Forms and using web services to create "mini-databases".

(3) SQL:

   * SELECT
         o SELECT ... WHERE, INSERT ... ORDER
         o Joins (select from two tables) 
   * CREATE
         o Data types: Integer, Float, VarChar, text
         o DEFAULT, NOT NULL, Auto increment
         o Keys
         o Primary keys 
         o Foreign keys 
   * INSERT (both forms)
   * UPDATE / DELETE
   * DROP 

(4) Relational database design:

• Simple 2-3 table architectures
• 1 to N and N to N relations between tables

(5) XML

• Be able to edit/fix well-formed XML files
• XSLT: Simple use of templates (definition and applying), html page generation
• Simple use of XPath expressions (finding nodes and attributes, extracting text, identifying a position). XPath is used both by XSLT and XQuery.
• XQuery: Simple FLOWR expressions, html page generation

(6) Identity and authentication (high-level principles)

Not included:

• PHP programming, e.g. writing for loops and other algorithms