From CS 418/518 Fall 2012

CS418-F12: Useful Links

Admin Links

• Blackboard
• CS 418 Email List
• Textbooks
  • Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development - online preview
  • suggested reference: Learning PHP, MySQL, and Javascript by Robin Nixon (free on-campus @safaribooksonline)
• ODU Honor Council
• CS Dept Systems Group (Unix account questions)
  • Create a CS Account
  • CS Lab Hours
• Printing Lecture Notes
• Opening X Windows Remotely

Refreshers

• CS 312, Fall 2011 offering - Weigle
  • Examples
• CS 330, Fall 2011 offering - Zeil
• Intro to Unix (Dr. Zeil's CS 252)
• Unix/C/HTML Useful Links

Text Editors

• Notepad++ (Windows)
• Emacs Tutorial (Unix)
  • nXhtml package for emacs - useful for editing XHTML, PHP, etc.

MySQL Links

• MySQL documentation
  • SQL query syntax
  • SQL data types
  • SELECT statements
• Joins
  • Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
• SQL Zoo - interactive SQL tutorial
• Search
  • Pattern Matching
  • Full-Text Search
  • Full-Text Boolean Operators
  • Stopwords
    • NASA list

PHP Links

• Variable Handling Functions
• URI Encoding
  • urlencode()
  • urldecode()
  • URL Encoding Reference
  • More explanation and examples (@blooberry.com)
• Date/Time Functions
• Regular Expressions
  • http://us2.php.net/regex
  • http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126/
• Escaping HTML
  • http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_string_htmlentities.asp
  • http://php.net/manual/en/function.htmlentities.php
  • http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.html-entity-decode.php
  • http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/func_string_html_entity_decode.asp
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language

Programming Links

• HTML Code Tutorial (includes CSS tutorial)
  • list of all HTML tags
• HTMLDog's CSS Tutorial
• 34SP's CSS Links
• W3 Schools Tutorials (HTML, CSS, Javascript, XML, PHP)
• Javascript Kit - Javascript reference
• client-side input validation examples

Networking Links

• Live HTTP Headers - plugin for Firefox
• Using Developer Tools for Chrome - view HTTP headers, download time, object sizes
• Web Performance Best Practices - from Google

CAPTCHA Links

• http://www.captcha.net/
• SQUIGL-PIX - http://server251.theory.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/sq-pix
• ESP-PIX - http://server251.theory.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/esp-pix/esp-pix
• reCAPTCHA - http://www.google.com/recaptcha
  • video - https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/
• Examples
  • http://www.google.com/addurl/
  • https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25215770&postID=5975815412653416464
• Top 10 Worst Captchas
• Implementations
  • simple CAPTCHA - http://captchas.net/ (php implementation - http://captchas.net/sample/php/)
  • reCAPTCHA - http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha