Programming for the Web II

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Students apply their existing knowledge of HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript to create web sites employing the PHP scripting language and a MySQL back-end database to create dynamic, interactive web sites. Topics include creation of web pages using PHP to display dynamic content, basic file system I/O, creation of a MySQL database, populating the database using SQL statements via PHP, and displaying the contents of the database on a web page. The Windows software used includes a text editor (such as NotePad++), an SFTP program (such as FileZilla), an HTML5 compliant browser (IE9+, Chrome, or FireFox) and the MAMP (Mac OS, Apache, MySQL, PERL, and PHP) software bundle. Macintosh software includes a text editor (such as TextWrangler), an SFTP program (such as Fetch) an HTML5 compliant browser (such as Chrome or Safari), and the WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PERL, and PHP) software bundle. Students do not need to purchase any software. All software is available to be freely downloaded via the internet.