Assignments
Due Dates
Programming assignments and homeworks are due at the beginning of class.
Late work is not accepted without prior approval. Any assignment turned
in after class will be considered late and will be subject to the usual
penalties. Submitting all assignments is a necessary condition for
passing this class. Assignment submitted late will be penalized 10% per
day, including weekends and holidays.
Guidelines
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All assignments will be graded using firefox.
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All server-side assignments will be tested on Linux ITLabs machines.
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If the TA cannot run your assignment, you will not
receive credit, but will be given the option to demo
your assignment. If you can demonstrate your assignment,
full credit will be given.
Submission Guidelines
When emailing the assignment to the TA. The subject of the mail should be
"CSci4131 Assignment [0-9]+". The "[0-9]+" is the assignment number.
Guides and Help
PHP setup in your ITlabs account.
PHP should be ready to run in your ITlabs account. This section will
show you how to put up a simple test PHP page to ensure that you are
doing this correctly.
Make sure you have a ".www" folder.
Your home directory will be something like "/home/it##/<username>"
and your pwd will be set to that when you log in. Inside that folder will
be a hidden folder called ".www". You won't see it with a standard ls
command and will need to do an ls -a to show the hidden folders.
The ".www" folder will be where you will put all of the files you
wish to be hosted on-line. You must make sure that all files placed
here are readable by anyone and that all executable (CGI or PHP) are
executable by anyone as well. The most simplistic way to do this is to
type something like this.$ chmod 755 <filename>.
Navigating to this directory externally
In order to view your files as web resources, you will need to navigate
to them with a web browser. If you open a browser and point it to
http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/~<username> you should find
yourself looking at the ".www" directory.
Create a test.php page
Now, we will create a test.php page to ensure that things are working
well. I am going to assume you are SSHing into the ITlabs machine (or
are working on the machine itself) and will continue this guide as if
you were using "pico" (or it's clone "nano").
You'll have to create the PHP file. You can do that by moving into
the ".www" folder and executing pico test.php in the prompt.
This will open the editor and give you space to type. Add the following code.
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
Now, press Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to exit.
By default, pico may not save the file with the correct permissions,
so to be sure, run chmod 755 test.php.
You should now be able to point to
http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/~<username>/test.php to see
the PHP page do its job.
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