Course Overview
COMP 1920 has been replaced by COMP 3015 This hands-on course follows on from COMP 1850 and introduces server-side scripting using PHP an open-source, platform-independent, web scripting language. After learning the basic PHP theory and syntax, topics include: textfile manipulation, cookies, regular expressions, sessions, graphics, and database interactions. By the end of this course, students have learned the major functions of PHP server-side scripting and how to freely obtain a wide variety of open-source software tools and code libraries. COMP 1920 is an elective in the “Applied Web Development” associate certificate plus the CST/PTS Diploma.
Prerequisite(s)
- COMP 1850 or equivalent HTML5 and CSS3 experience
Credits
3.0
- Retired
- This course has been retired and is no longer offered. Find other Flexible Learning courses that may interest you.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify, locate, download, and install dozens of free tools useful for server-side Web scripting.
- Explain the theory behind server-side Web scripting.
- Write PHP Web scripts with and without HTML content.
- Install, configure and deploy a working web server to server PHP scripts
- Obtain, process, and store user input from Web pages.
- Use cookies to remember users and user data.
- Use regular expressions to find, process, and validate data.
- Use server-side resources with their Web pages including files, databases, images, etc… located on the server.
- Use sessions to authorize users and persist their data across multiple Web pages.
- Learn other server-side scripting languages with relative ease.
Effective as of Spring/Summer 2015
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