Introduction to PHP 5 with SQLite By Svein Nordbotten, Professor Emeritus University of Bergen, Norway Bergen, September 2010 Contents About the course. ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Session 1: Static web applications ................................................................................................................ 7 Basics ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Web applications .................................................................................................................................. 7 HTML - Hypertext Markup Language .................................................................................................... 8 HTML Format ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Texts ...................................................................................................................................................... 9 Links .................................................................................................................................................... 10 Images ................................................................................................................................................. 11 Lists ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 Tables .................................................................................................................................................. 12 Forms .................................................................................................................................................. 13 Frames ................................................................................................................................................. 14 CSS, JavaScript, and XML ..................................................................................................................... 15 Session 2: Dynamic applications in PHP .................................................................................................. 16 Dynamic web sites .............................................................................................................................. 16 CGI and PERL ....................................................................................................................................... 17 Applications Program Interfaces ......................................................................................................... 18 PHP Language ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Approach in this course ...................................................................................................................... 19 Simple example ................................................................................................................................... 19 Guessing example ............................................................................................................................... 21 Session 3: Dynamic application without database ............................................................................. 24 Market research .................................................................................................................................. 24 System design ..................................................................................................................................... 24 Market research .................................................................................................................................. 26 Market analysis ................................................................................................................................... 30 Session 4: Introducing the SQLite database ........................................................................................... 33 Dynamic applications and databases .................................................................................................. 33 SQLite .................................................................................................................................................. 33 Creation of a reference database to you personal library. ................................................................. 33 Menu page .......................................................................................................................................... 35 Creating and populating a database ................................................................................................... 36 Listing the content of the database .................................................................................................... 38 Searching the database for a book reference. .................................................................................... 39 Updating book references in the database......................................................................................... 42 Deleting rows in the database ............................................................................................................ 46 Removing all content in the booktable ............................................................................................... 47 Session 5: Application with SQLite database .......................................................................................... 49 Opinion polls ....................................................................................................................................... 49 Application design ............................................................................................................................... 49 Application menu ................................................................................................................................ 50 Creating records and a list of panel members .................................................................................... 51 Processing, statistics and rotation ...................................................................................................... 55 Session 6: Functions in PHP .................................................................................................................... 60 Functions ................................................................................................................................................. 60 Authorization and authentication ........................................................................................................... 61 Table existence test ............................................................................................................................ 65 Authorization ...................................................................................................................................... 66 PIN code assignment ........................................................................................................................... 66 Authentication .................................................................................................................................... 67 Function library ................................................................................................................................... 68 Logging .................................................................................................................................................... 68 Logging function .................................................................................................................................. 69 Example environment ......................................................................................................................... 69 Session 7: File processing ........................................................................................................................ 71 Maintaining files.................................................................................................................................. 71 Fetching files ....................................................................................................................................... 71 Uploading files .................................................................................................................................... 74 Session 8: Object-Orientation in PHP ..................................................................................................... 79 Object-oriented interface ................................................................................................................... 79 Object-oriented syntax ....................................................................................................................... 79 SQLite OO interface syntax ................................................................................................................. 83 Session 9: Login class .............................................................................................................................. 86 Authentication