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ITM352

ITM352. PHP and Dynamic Web Pages: Server Side Processing. Today's Class. What is PHP and How does it used for dynamic web pages? Diving in head first! How PHP enables server side dynamic web pages Starting to figure out what application programming is about…

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ITM352

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  1. ITM352 PHP and Dynamic Web Pages: Server Side Processing

  2. Today's Class • What is PHP and How does it used for dynamic web pages? • Diving in head first! • How PHP enables server side dynamic web pages • Starting to figure out what application programming is about… • Have confidence that you will learn! Just keep at it.

  3. What is PHP? • A web-based programming language – "Pre-Hypertext Processor" or “PHP-Hypertext Processor” (although it originally meant “Personal Home Page”) • - All computers are directed by programs • - like very detailed recipes • - written in languages that humans can understand and be processed by computers (unlike English) • PHP is one among many thousands of such languages…

  4. What's special about PHP? • Web-based, familiar user interfaces, easy integration with other web-based systems • Current, designed according to the latest understanding of programming language design. • Portable, so it can be run on almost any computer. • Object-oriented, like the most popular languages (Java, C++) used today for the most innovative applications. • Convenient, loaded with powerful and useful features, supports many different programming styles • Used, lots of PHP in use today (incl. the most "popular" dynamic web sites), more all the time, lots of non-trivial examples and free resources • Not Proprietary, and that’s good!

  5. PHP Usage May 2017 Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/01/31/php-just-grows-grows.html

  6. PHP is Gateway to Shared Services and Data

  7. How Does PHP Work? • PHP is a program that performs dynamic HTML scripting • It is a language interpreter that directly executes commands then ultimately outputs into HTML/HTTP (rather than a compiler which outputs translates commands into machine code for later execution) • The server knows to execute PHP code when the requested file has a .php extension Web Server (e.g. Apache) Client (e.g. IE) Give me page xxx.php HTML + PHP code PHP Scripting Engine output Static HTML Dynamic data (files, database, webserver, data feeds, etc.) Must have .php extension! Do exercise #1

  8. Example Dynamic Web Page • Open your favorite text editor and type • <?php • echo '<big><center> Hello World!</center><BR>'; • echo '1+2='; • echo 1+2; • ?> • Note that PHP code will always be enclosed inside the <? … ?> or <?php … ?> tags. Outside is HTML (but notice that inside there can be HTML too) • Questions • Why is this a "dynamic" web page? • Why wouldn't this file work the same if you called it index.html? • When you do a "view source" in the browser, where is the PHP code? Do exercise #2

  9. Tour of a PHP IDE: Simple Output • Several parts to an IDE (for us, NetBeans for PHP) • Editor (for writing code) • File manager • Preview (web-server, web-browser) • Tools (documentation, debugger, scripts, etc.) • In the IDE, let’s type and run the following: • <big><center> Hello World!</center><BR> • 1+2= • <?php • // add 1 and 2 then print out the result • echo 1+2; • ?> • Why is this the same as the previous dynamic web page example? Do exercise #3

  10. Server Side PHP Note how this HTML is just “passed” though the PHP scripting engine • Page with current date • <big><center> The date is:</center><BR> • <?php • echo date(DATE_RFC2822); • ?> • Who’s date is used? • What if the server were in a different time zone? • Page redirection • <?php • header('Location: http://www.google.com'); • ?> • In JavaScript • window.location = 'http://www.google.com'; • HTML • <META http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.google.com"> What’s the difference? Do exercise #4, #5

  11. Client vs. Server Side Processing • What’s the difference?

  12. Libraries and Frameworks Both PHP and JavaScript have many useful frameworks and libraries to help you do just about anything! PHP: php.net/manual/en/extensions.alphabetical.php pear.php.net/packages.php, <see NetBeans project> JavaScript: DOM, JQuery, Angular, AJAX, COMET, DataTables, etc. <see NetBeans project>

  13. Client + Server Side Processing • Compare dates • Server Time: • <?php • echo date(DATE_RFC2822); • ?> • <br> • Browser Time: • <script> • document.write( Date().toString() ); • </script> • Generating JavaScript with PHP • Make a page that generates a random color • <script> • <?php • echo "document.body.style.backgroundColor= 'rgb(" . rand(0,255) . • ',' . rand(0,255) . ',' . rand(0,255) . ")';" • ?> • </script> Do exercise #6

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