Tests

mysearch.php

Click on one of the examples below to execute the PHP script. To download the script, go to the sample sources section in Vision.

• Basics:
  • PHP Hello World
  • PHP Info
  • Our first form
  • Page1
  • A hit counter example
  • A session example
• Regular Expressions:
  • Simple Regular Expressions
  • Testing Regular Expressions
  • Testing Perl Regular Expressions
  • Credit card validation example
• Data types:
  • An array example
  • An example with class
  • Shopping Cart Example
• Control structures:
  • Sum over array example
  • Another sum over array example
  • Testing higher-order functions
• Security:
  • OpenSSL interface
  • OpenSSL seal
• Databases:
  • Test PEAR interface (local only!)
  • Create a DB (local only!)
  • Fill a DB (local only!)
  • Read a DB (local only!)
  • Test MySQL interface
• XML:
  • Book parser (event based)
  • Simple XML book parser

Exercises:

• Find the Specification of regular expression exercise.
  Use this Template for regular expression exercise.
  Run this sample solution for the exercise.
• Write a PHP script, that
  1. reads a data file from the Big MACS store manager of coursework 1, and
  2. displays the contents of the file in a table,
  3. highlighting the supplier field.
  4. The user should be able to pick the filename via a form (or upload the file, using a file upload).
• Extend the shopping cart example,
  1. to additionally store for each article a unit price and a currency; (Hint: Use a separate class to collect all information of an article)
  2. Extend the show function to show prices and calculate the total cost of all articles in the shopping cart.
  3. Implement, in a separate class, a function that converts prices between the currencies GBP, EUR and USD, and a apply the function to all elements in the cart (Hint: Use array_walk to apply the function to all articles in the cart).

  Sample solution (also available from Vision).

• PHP Manual (including a PHP Tutorial)
• Embedding PHP in HTML: the basics
• Software for download:
  • XAMPP (contains Apache, MySQL, PHP & PEAR, etc)
  • MAMP (as above, but for Macs)
• HTML Quicklist (HTML quick reference)
• HTML Tutorial
• MySQL cheat sheet
• PEAR Manual