Useful Links

Admin Links

• Blackboard
• CS 418 Email List & mdash; TBD
• Textbooks
  • Required: Beginning PHP5, Apache, and MySQL Web Development — ISBN 978-0-7645-7966-0 — online preview
  • Suggested Reference: Learning PHP, MySQL, and Javascript by Robin Nixon — ISBN 978-0-596-15713-5 — 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

Editors & IDEs

• Notepad++ (Windows)
• Vim (vi improved) (Linix/Windows/OS X)
• Emacs Tutorial (Unix)
  • nXhtml package for emacs - useful for editing XHTML, PHP, etc.
• NetBeans IDE PHP Development (Linux/Windows/OS X)

MySQL

• 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

• Variable Handling Functions
• URI Encoding?
  • urlencode()
  • urldecode()
  • URL Encoding Reference
  • More explanation and examples (@blooberry.com)
  • RFC 3986 — Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax
• Date/Time Functions
• Regular Expressions
  • PHP Regular Expressions
  • Mastering Regular Expressions 3rd Edition
• Escaping HTML
  • PHP: htmlentities() documentation
  • PHP: html_entity_decode() documentation
  • w3schools: htmlentities() documentation
  • w3schools: html_entity_decode() documentation
  • WikiPedia: Lightweight Markup Language

HTML, CSS, &amp Javascript

• 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
• JQuery
• Google's Web Performance Best Practices

HTTP & Client-Side Tools

• Firefox Live HTTP Headers — extension
• Firefox Firebug extension
• Using Developer Tools for Chrome — view HTTP headers, download time, object sizes | ]]

CAPTCHA

• 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

CAPTCHA Alternatives

• 8 Alternatives to the Hated Captcha
• Why You Should Stop Using CAPTCHAs
• 6 CAPTCHA Alternatives to Improve Conversion
• Akismet