Introduction to Dynamic Web

Content
Chapter 1
Dr. Charles Severance

To be used in assocition with the book:

PHP, MySql, and JavaScript by Robin Nixon
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Copyright 2011- Charles Severance

 Early History of Important*
Programming Languages

Machine Language (1940's)

Assembly Language (1940's)
FORTRAN - Mathematics expressions (1955)
C - High-productivity Assembly Language (1969)

* As defined by Dr. Chuck

 Science Calculations ObjectiveC (83)
FORTRAN (55)
System
Java (95)
System

Assembly C (72) C++ (80) C# (01)

JavaScript (95)
C uses curly
braces { } for perl (87) php (95)
code blocks.

python (91) Scripting/

Interpreted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languages
 Show Me The Money...

C, C++, C#, ObjectiveC

Java

PHP

...

http://langpop.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tracy_olson/61056391/
 The History of PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf

Not a trained computer scientist

Consultant building dynamic web

sites - got tired of doing the same
thing over and over in C

Reusable bits + HTML Templates

http://www.vimeo.com/6215179
 Request / Response Cycle
You enter http://server.com into your browsers address bar.

Your browser looks up the IP address for server.com.

Your browser issues a request for the home page at server.com.

The request crosses the Internet and arrives at the server.com web
server.

The web server, having received the request looks for the web page on
its hard disk.

The web page is retrieved by the server and returned to the browser.

Your browser displays the web page.

 Internet

HTTP Request
JavaScript GET PHP MySql
HTML Response
AJAX CSS POST Templates MVC

Cookies
Our Technologies
 PHP
PHP is the most widely used scripting language for web
programming. PHP extends HTML pages by adding server-
executed code segments to HTML pages. The output of the
execution of the PHP code is merged into the HTML page.

<?php
echo "Hello World. Today is ".date("l").". ";
?>
How are you?

Hello World. Today is Wednesday. How are you?

 MySQL
MySQL is one of the most popular free and open source
database engines in the market place. MySQL powers
Facebook,Yahoo!, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and millions of
other dynamic web sites.

INSERT INTO users VALUES('Smith', 'John', 'jsmith@mysite.com');

SELECT surname,firstname FROM users WHERE email='jsmith@mysite.com';

 JavaScript
JavaScript is a C-like programming language that can be
included in an HTML web page. JavaScript allows the builder
of a web page to embed dynamic elements within a web page.
JavaScript programs run in the browser (i.e. the Client)

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("Hello World. Today is " + Date() );
</script>
 JavaScript: Brendan Eich

Invented JavaScript in May

1995 in ten days
 Apache Web Server
Originally Developed at National
Center for Supercomputing
Applications in 1994

Open Source

First project / product of the

Apache Foundation

Brian Behlendorf founded Apache

http://www.vimeo.com/3800796
 Summary

We laid out the general structure for the course and

introduced the technologies that will be used for the course.