Introduction and announcements
Welcome to Databases and the Web 2012/13!
This page is intended to hold a few resources that are awkward to host on StudySpace ... everything else will be on StudySpace! Material from the last 2011/12 module run is here.
This module teaches you how to develop database-driven web pages/sites/applications using (X)HTML, PHP and MySQL. See the module guide for a tentative schedule, reading list and further information. (Also available on StudySpace.)
Important information:
Backup your work!
Always remember to backup your work from your network drive! Ideally you should have copies on the network H: drive and on USB/CD but if you use on StudentNet secure it with a login of some sort of login (PHP/MySQL/sesssions/.htaccess etc.)
Please use valid mark-up & a DOCTYPE!
<!DOCTYPE html> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
Remember to validate your pages and if you're using the HTML5 DOCTYPE, justify it in your report!
Character encoding & META tags
META tags are used to provide information about a web page (i.e. information about information). The following META tag is needed in many XHTML web pages when validating as it identifies the character encoding used in the page (ISO-8859-1 is `Western European' whereas Unicode UTF-8 is supposed to be a catch-all encoding):
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
About this page
I've tried to practice a little of what I preach: This page validates as
Strict
XHTML and CSS,
uses mainly semantic markup and CSS
for layout. In addition it should be served as application/xhtml+xml to standards-compliant browsers that understand the
proper media type for XHTML ... and text/html otherwise ;-)
Send any comments to me at:
Dr James Denholm-Pricej.denholm-price@kingston.ac.uk
Principal Lecturer
Kingston University
Faculty of SEC
Kingston University
Penrhyn Road
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2EE
work: 02084172670
