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This document provides an overview of internet programming and web development. It discusses: 1. The steps to develop a website, including obtaining equipment, registering a web server with an ISP, and developing content. 2. How internet programming involves both client-side programming to define client operations and server-side programming to define server operations. 3. An introduction to XHTML for web programming, including its basic structure, tags, and common elements like headers, meta tags, and links.

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4 Internet Programming

This document provides an overview of internet programming and web development. It discusses: 1. The steps to develop a website, including obtaining equipment, registering a web server with an ISP, and developing content. 2. How internet programming involves both client-side programming to define client operations and server-side programming to define server operations. 3. An introduction to XHTML for web programming, including its basic structure, tags, and common elements like headers, meta tags, and links.

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4. Internet Programming

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Reference
H.M. Deitel, P.J. Deitel and T.R. Nieto, Internet
and World Wide Web: How to Program, Prentice
Hall, 2002

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Web site development


 To develop a Web site, three steps:
1. Obtain the appropriate equipment
 Web Server – hardware and software
2. Register the Web Server to an Internet
Service Provider (ISP)
 Obtain the IP address and DNS address
3. Develop the contents
 Internet Programming

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Internet Programming
 Web service is a kind of client / server process
 Need interaction between client and server
 Programming for providing Web service can
also be divided into
– Client-side programming: to define the operation to
be performed on the client’s machine
– Server-side programming: to define the operation to
be performed on the server

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Internet
Database Web Server Web Client
Server-side Programming Client-side Programming

Skills that are often required: Skills that are often required:
• CGI • XHTML
• PHP • Javascript
• ASP • Java
• Perl • Dreamweaver
• Java Servlet, … • Flash
• SMIL, XML …
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4.1 XHTML – Extensible HyperText


MarkUp Language

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Web programming using XHTML


 Nowadays, there are many tools that help to
develop Web page
– Dreamweaver, Visual studio
 Provide sophisticated tools to allow Web page
developed in a graphical manner
 Finally, the job of these tools is to convert the
user design to XHTML code
 Understanding of XHTML allows us
– fine tuning the codes generated by these tools
– understand the source of a Web page
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What is XHTML?
 Unlike procedural programming languages, e.g. C,
C++, XHTML is a markup language that specifies the
format of document to be seen in browser
 XHTML has replaced the HTML as the primary means
of describing the Web page content
 Become a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
recommendation
– W3C is an industry consortium
– Seeks to promote standards for the evolution of the Web and
interoperability between WWW products by producing
specifications and reference software
 Compared with HTML, XHTML provides more robust,
richer and extensible features
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Features of XHTML
 Platform independent
– The same piece of code can give the same display in Mac,
Linux and Windows
 Text-based
– Program is written with ASCII characters
– Can be written using a text editor, such as notepad
 An XHTML file must have an extension of .html or .htm
 Information is generally enclosed inside paired tags
– E.g. <html> … </html>
– There are many tags in XHTML. They specify different
information required to display the Web page content

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Basic Structure of XHTML


<html>
<!-- This is a comment -->
<head>
<title>
This is title, describing the content
</title>
</head>
<body>
This is body, main part of the page
</body>
</html>
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useful for validating the code to
see if they meet the xhtml standard
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<!-- main.html --> comment


<!-- Our first Web page -->
define the namespace of html
<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Internet and WWW How to Program -
Welcome
</title>
</head> define the title of the web page
<body>
<p>Welcome to XHTML!</p>
</body>
</html> <p> - new paragraph Example
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See the title defined in head

That’s the content defined in body


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 An XHTML document can be divided into 2


sections
 head section
– contains information of how the page is formatted
– e.g. <title> … </title> can be found in head section
to indicate the title of the Web page when it is
shown in browser
 body section
– contains the actual page contents
– e.g. <p>Welcome to XHTML!</p> shows a line of
text “Welcome to XHTML!” on the new paragraph

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Tags
 Tags: case sensitive
– For XHTML, <center> is different from <CENTER>
– For HTML, it is case insensitive
 Browse will not display information within tag that does
not understand
 Tags: no precise positioning
 Many start tags define attributes that provide additional
information
 E.g. <html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

start tag attribute name attribute value


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Common Tags – Headers


 Some text may be more important the others
 XHTML provides six headers, called header elements,
for specifying the relative importance of information
– <h1> … </h1>, <h2> … </h2> to <h6> … </h6>
 It is assumed the text in <h1> is more important than
that in <h2> and so on so forth
 By default, the size of the text that is more important is
bigger

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<html xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


<head>
<title>Internet and WWW How to Program -
Headers</title>
</head>

<body> 6 headers are all used


to indicate the relative
<h1>Level 1 Header</h1>
<h2>Level 2 header</h2>
importance of text
<h3>Level 3 header</h3>
<h4>Level 4 header</h4>
<h5>Level 5 header</h5>
<h6>Level 6 header</h6>

</body>
</html>
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Text under <h1> has the largest size

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Meta Tag
 HTML interacts with the search engines
through using meta tag
These words are compared
with words in search requests

<head>
<meta name=“keywords” content=“lecture notes, html,
form, feedback”>
<meta name=“description” content = “this web site
describes …”>
</head>
Description of a page seen on searching
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Linking Webpage
 One of the most important XHTML features is
the hyperlink
– Link to another resources, such as web page, image,
etc.
 Achieve by using the anchor tag <a>:
– To a web page:
<a href=“http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk”>PolyU</a>
anchor attribute The name on the Web
page that represents this
Value of the attribute:
link
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strong tag lets the text to be
<body> displayed with bold font
<h1>Here are my favorite Other similar tags include
sites</h1> <u> underline and <em> italic
<p><strong>Click a name to go to that page.
</strong></p>
Four links create
<!-- Create four test hyperlinks -->

<p><a href = "http://www.polyu.edu.hk">PolyU</a></p>


<p><a href = "http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk">EIE</a></p>
<p><a href = "http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~enpklun">
Dr Daniel Lun's Home</a></p>
<p><a href = "http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/
~enpklun/ENG224/ENG224.htm">ENG224 Home page</a></p>
</body>
Don’t introduce spaces between
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This line is shown with a bold font

Four links are included

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Linking Email Addresses


 To a mail address:
<a href=“mailto:[email protected]”> Email me
</a>
 With a subject:
<a href=“mailto:[email protected]?subject=title”>
Email me
</a>
 Multiple recipients:
<a href=“mailto:address1,address2, address3”> Email me
</a>
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Linking Images
 Background Image can be defined as an
attribute of the body tag:
<body background=“image.gif”>
 To show an Image inside a page:
<img src=“image.gif” border=“0” height=“256”
width=“256” alt=“text description of the image”/>
 We can create an image hyperlink
<a href=“page1.html”>
<img src=“image.gif” …/>
</a>
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Will scale to this size to display


<body>

<p><img src = "xmlhtp.jpg"


height = "238“ width = "183"
alt = "XML How to Program book cover"/>
<img src = "jhtp.jpg"
height = "238" width = "183"
alt = "Java How to Program book cover"/>
</p>
</body>

empty element: jhtp.jpg in fact cannot be found.


do not markup text With the alt attribute, the statement
is displayed if the image is not found
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“alt” statement (may not


display the same for
Netscape)

The image displayed at the


specified size

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Color
 2 ways to specify:
– Use hexadecimal numbers
– RGB format: FF: strongest, 00 weakest
 #FF0000
 #00FF00
 #0000FF
– Use color names
 Black, White, Red, Cyan, Green, Purple,
Magenta, Blue, Yellow, OrangeRed,
SpringGreen, BlueViolet, Gold, DarkGoldenrod,
Burlywood, …
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Color
 Background color:
– <body bgcolor=“#00FF00”> … </body>
– <body bgcolor =“green”> … </body>
 Text color, links, visited links and activated links:
– <body bgcolor =“white” text=“black” link=“purple”
vlink=“blue” alink=“yellow”>
 Font color:
– <font color=“green”> … </font>

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Formatting Text
 The format of displayed text can be changed by using
<font> … </font>
 Attributes:
– Color:
– Size:
 Relative: +1, +2, -3, …
 Absolute: 10, 12, …
– Face:
 Font used
 Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, Times, …
 Multiple fonts:

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background color is yellow
<body bgcolor = “#ffff00”>
<p><font face="courier" color="green" size=“24”>
This is a test.</font>
horizontal ruler
<hr />
<font face="times" color="red" >
This is a test.</font> the backslash is only
</p>
to improve readability
<p>
<font face="arial" color="red" size=“+1”>
See the This is a test.</font>
difference <br />
between <font face="times" color="#ff00ff" size=“+2”>
This is a test.</font>
<p> and </p>
<br> <p align = center><font face="courier" size=“+3”>
This is a test.</font>
</p> the text is placed at the center
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size = 24
default size

size = +1, +2, +3

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Lists
 Unordered list
– a list that does not order its items by letter or number
– <ul> … </ul> creates a list where each item begins
with a bullet
– List items: <li> … </li>
– For example
<ul>
<li>Apple</li>
<li>Orange</li>
<li>Banana</li>
</ul>
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Lists
 Ordered list
– List that order their items by letter
or number
– <ol type=“style”> … </ol>
When style equals to
 1: decimal, 1, 2, 3, …
 I: uppercase Roman, I, II, III, …
 i: lowercase Roman, i, ii, iii, …
 A: uppercase Latin, A, B, C, …
 a: lowercase Latin, a, b, c, …

– List items: <li> … </li>


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Table
 Organize data into rows and columns

Table caption
Table header

Table body
Table footer
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 <table attribute=“value”> … </table>


 Attribute examples:
– border=“1”  the larger the number, the thicker is the border. “0”
means no border
– align=“center”  the table is aligned at the center of the
browser
– width=“60%”  to set the table width to 60% of the browser’s
width
 Caption of the table: <caption> … </caption>
 Insert a table row: <tr> … </tr>
 The head, body and foot sections are defined by
<thead> … </thead>
<tbody> … </tbody>
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<table border = "1" width = "40%" align = left


summary = "This table provides information about
the price of fruit">

<caption><strong>Price of Fruit</strong></caption>

<thead>
<tr> <!-- <tr> inserts a table row -->
<th>Fruit</th> <!-- insert a heading cell -->
<th>Price</th>
</tr> The use of th tag
</thead> defines the
The tr tag insert content of header
<tbody> a new row or footer cells
<tr>
<td>Apple</td> <!-- insert a data cell -->
<td>$0.25</td>
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<tr> <tfoot>
<td>Orange</td> <tr>
<td>$0.50</td> <th>Total</th>
</tr> <th>$3.75</th>
<tr> </tr>
<td>Banana</td> </tfoot>
<td>$1.00</td> </table>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Pineapple</td>
<td>$2.00</td> The use of th tag
</tr> defines the
</tbody> The use of td tag
defines the content of header
content of body or footer cells
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Col span and Row span

 colspan and rowspan allow merging


columns/rows
– <colspan=“number”>
 data cell spans more than one column
– <rowspan=“number”>
 data cell spans more than one row

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<table border=“1” width=“60%”>
<caption> Average Grades </caption>
<tr>
<th colspan=“4”> Report </th> first row
</tr>
<tr>
<th> </th> <th> 2000 </th> <th> 2001 </th>
<th> 2002 </th>
</tr> 2nd row
<tr>
<td> Maths </td> <td> A </td> <td rowspan=“2”
valign=“center”> B </td> <td> C </td>
</tr>
vertical alignment 3rd row
<tr>
<td> English </td> <td> C </td> <td> A </td>
</tr>
4th row
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Forms
 When browsing
web sites, users
often need to
provide information
such as email
address, search
keywords, etc
 Forms allows user
to input information

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App CGI
Internet
Web Server Web Client
1
www.abc.com/form.htm

2
www.abc.com
method = post or get
3
action = program name
(script) in server to
receive the data
Name = ???
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 A form element is inserted into a web page by the


<form> tag
 <form method = “value1” action = “value2”> … </form>
 Attributes:
– method = “post” or “get”
 Indicates the way the Web server will organize and
send you the form output
 post: causes changes to server data, e.g., update
a database
 get: does not cause any changes in server-side
data, e.g., make a database request
– action = “”
 Path to script, e.g., CGI

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use post method script that will be called to


execute in the server

<form method = “post” action = “/cgi-bin/formmail”>


<input type=“radio” name=“size” value=“large”
checked=“checked”/> large
<input type=“radio” name=“size” value=“medium”/>
medium
<input type=“radio” name=“size” value=“small”/>
small
</form>

Only the radio


button of large is
checked
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Forms
 Elements inside a form are introduced by the
<input> tag
 <input>
– type=“hidden” name=“variable name”
value=“value that sends to the server”
– type =“text” name=“” value =“” size=“25”
– type =“submit” value =“”
– type =“reset” value =“”
– type =“checkbox” value =“” name=“”
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Thing that sends back to server
Form example I
<input type=“checkbox” name=“things”
value=“ham”/> Ham
<input type=“checkbox” name=“things”
value=“sweetcorn”/> Sweet Corn Indicate all 5
<input type=“checkbox” name=“things” checkboxes
value=“mushroom”/> Mushroom belong to the
<input type=“checkbox” name=“things” same group
value=“chicken”/> Chicken
<input type=“checkbox” name=“things”
value=“peas”/> Peas

The words show on screen

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Form example II
Data that would send to
server but do not display on
screen

<input type="hidden" name=“title" value="Feedback" />

<p><label>Name:
<input type= "text" name= "name" size="25"
maxlength="30"/>
</label>
</p>
send the input the textbox to server
<input type= "submit" value="Submit your entries"/>
<input type= "reset" value="Clear Your Entries"/>
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Form example III

Masked by asterisk
Space is counted here

<p><label>Comments:<br />
<textarea name= "comments" rows="4" cols="36">
Enter your comments here.
</textarea> </label></p>
<p><label>Please input your password:
<input name= "secret" type="password" size="25"/>
</label></p>
<input type= "submit" value="Submit Your Entries"/>
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Form example IV
The “selected” value here
mean Amazing is selected
default value
<p><label>Rate our site:
<select name= "rating">
<option value=“Amazing”
selected="selected">Amazing</option>
<option value=“3”>3</option>
<option value=“2”>2</option> Change to default
<option value=“1”>1</option> value when reset
<option value=“0”>0</option>
</select></p>
<input type= "submit" value="Submit Your Entries"/>
<input type= "reset" value="Clear Your Entries"/>
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