Html
Some useful HTML tags about form
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
form
<form action="demo_form.asp"> First name: <input type="text" name="FirstName" value="Mickey"><br> Last name: <input type="text" name="LastName" value="Mouse"><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>
radio button label and input
<form action="demo_form.asp"> <label for="male">Male</label> <input type="radio" name="sex" id="male" value="male"><br> <label for="female">Female</label> <input type="radio" name="sex" id="female" value="female"><br> <input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form>
dropdown list select and option
<select> <option value="volvo">Volvo</option> <option value="saab">Saab</option> <option value="opel">Opel</option> <option value="audi">Audi</option> </select>
Upload file using input
<form action="demo_form.asp"> Select a file: <input type="file" name="img"> <input type="submit"> </form>
div
<div style="color:#0000FF"> <h3>This is a heading in a div element</h3> <p>This is some text in a div element.</p> </div>
PHP
Differences between a standard HTML doc and a PHP doc
- PHP scripts should be saved with the .php file extension.
- You place PHP code within <?php and ?> tags, normally withink the context of some HTML.
- PHP is a server-side technology. So PHP scripts must be run on a PHP-enabled Web server. This means that PHP must be run through a URL (i.e. http://yourdomain/mypage.php).
If the php source code is
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <body> <?php # This script does nothing much. echo '<p>This is a line of text.<br />This is another line of text.</p>'; /* echo 'This line will not be executed.'; */ echo "<p>Now I'm done.</p>"; // End of PHP code. ?> </body> </html>
then when we view the page source from a web browser, it will look like
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <body> <p>This is a line of text.<br />This is another line of text.</p><p>Now I'm done.</p> </body> </html>
Resource
- Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS
- PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy
- Suhosin PHP Advanced Protection System
Debugging techniques
- Run PHP scripts through a URL; i.e. it must be requested through http://something.
- Know what version of PHP you're running; run phpinfo.php to confirm.
- Make sure display_errors is on. This is related to PHP configuration setting.
- CHeck the HTML source code.
- Trust the error message.
Quick sheet
- print_r($_SERVER); print 'ABCD';
- Use /* and */ for comments
- Variables are case-sensitive!
- Constants define('PI', 3.14);
- Strings: "Hello, $first_name", "I said \"How are you?\"". Note that backslash is used to escape the quotation.
- Arrays can be used by using either indexed array or associative array. For indexed arrays, the key is 0,1,2,3,... and for associative arrays, the key is a string. For example, $name[0]='Don' and $state['VT'] = 'Vermont'.
- Single quotation marks are treated literally; items within double quotation marks are extrapolated. This means that within double quotation marks, a variable's name is replaced with its value, but the same is not true for single quotation marks.
- XHTML are different from HTML
- the code needs to be in all lowercase letters
- every tag attribute must be enclosed in quotes
- For example, <INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=address SIZE=40> in HTML becomes <input text="text" name="address" size="40"> in XHTML
- For avoiding security problems in form, use PHP functions like htmlspecialchars(), htmlentities(), strip_tags().
- htmlspecialchars() converts certain HTMLM tags into their entity versions. The entity version appears in the output but isn't rendered.
- htmlentities() turns all HTML tags into their entity versions.
- strip_tags() removes all HTML and PHP tags.
- foreach() {}
- abcd
PHP, form and POST method
# | index.php | welcome.php |
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1. | <html> <body> <form action="welcome.php" method="post"> Name: <input type="text" name="fname" /> Age: <input type="text" name="age" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body> </html> |
<html> <body> Welcome <?php echo $_POST["fname"]; ?>!<br /> You are <?php echo $_POST["age"]; ?> years old. </body> </html> |
The 'action' attribute in <form> defines an absolute or a relative URL. That is, the action could be pointing to an asp, cgi page or something like "mailto:[email protected]".
PHP, form and GET method
index.php | welcome.php |
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<form action="welcome.php" method="get"> Name: <input type="text" name="fname" /> Age: <input type="text" name="age" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> |
Welcome <?php echo $_GET["fname"]; ?>.<br /> You are <?php echo $_GET["age"]; ?> years old! |
GET, the default, will send the form input in an URL, whereas POST sends it in the body of the submission. The latter method means you can send larger amounts of data, and that the URL of the form results doesn't show the encoded form.
MySQL basic operations
- Log into root
$ mysql -u root -h myserver-sever.com -p
- Create a new mysql database called demo
mysql> CREATE DATABASE demo;
- create a new user and GRANT (add) privileges to a newly created user on all tables in the demo database.
CREATE USER 'user1'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword'; GRANT ALL ON demo.* TO 'user1'@'localhost';
OR
mysql> GRANT ALL ON demo.* TO user1@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';
- How to connect to the demo database on local/remote MySQL server?
$ mysql -u user1 -h mysql.server.com -p demo
- To remove an account
DROP USER 'user1'@'localhost'
- Create a table on the demo database
mysql> USE demo; mysql> DROP TABLE Employee; mysql> CREATE TABLE Employee ( -> Name VARCHAR(50), -> Phone VARCHAR(15) -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.21 sec) mysql> Show tables; mysql> Describe Employee; +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Name | varchar(50) | YES | | NULL | | | Phone | varchar(15) | YES | | NULL | | +-------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 2 rows in set (0.03 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO Employee (Name, Phone) VALUES ('Joe Wang', '666 2323'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.04 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO Employee (Name) VALUES ('John Doe'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 sec) mysql> INSERT INTO Employee (Name, Phone) VALUES ('John Doe', NULL); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.01 sec) mysql> Select * from Employee; +----------+----------+ | Name | Phone | +----------+----------+ | Joe Wang | 666 2323 | | John Doe | NULL | | John Doe | NULL | +----------+----------+
Username/password
File upload
Need to change the folder permission/property. See here.
- chmod -R 777 FOLDERNAME
- sudo usermod www-data --apend --groups GROUPNAME
where GROUPNAME is the group name of the folder and www-data is the user that runs the web server.
- sudo chown -R .www-data FOLDERNAME
where the dot means no change for the owner's name. We just change the group name. It is also helpful to do chmod -R 775 FOLDERNAME.
- just edit /etc/group file. See the link above.
Examples:
- http://taichi.selfip.net:81/lang/php/w3/uploadphp/
- http://taichi.selfip.net:81/lang/php/xqto/index.php
Login/out + File upload
The following test page combines the ideas of login/out and file upload.
PHP and database
Books
CSS
- http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
- HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites
- beginner and advanced Designer/developer Shay Howe put together a set of free lessons.
- channel9.msdn.com
Important Tools
http://www.lifehack.org/314802/10-best-tools-optimize-and-audit-css-code
- Notepad++ - color coded formatting
- Stylizer - CSS editor with preview and has 8 built-in browsers
- Blueprint - CSS framework
- ProCSSor - cleans and organizes your css the way you want it
- CSS Compressor - reducing the size of your CSS code and helping your website to load much faster as a result
Simple example
<style> body { background-color:#d0e4fe; } h1 { color:orange; text-align:center; } p { font-family:"Times New Roman"; font-size:20px; } </style>
To insert a CSS in an html file, use
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css">
Margin vs padding
- http://www.digizol.com/2006/12/margin-vs-padding-css-properties.html
- http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_boxmodel.asp
What’s the difference between comma separated identifiers and space separated?
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6670360/space-separated-things-in-css
- http://community.sitepoint.com/t/whats-the-difference-between-comma-separated-identifiers-and-space-separated/6309/2
Style
CSS Styling
Overlapping elements
CSS position -> overlapping elements
Float an image
CSS floating -> How Elements Float
Text in Transparent Box
CSS Image Opacity
jQuery
- jQuery main page (download 1.8.3, simple example)
- jQuery plugin
- Tutorial
- multiple selection without Ctrl key
- Understand jQuery
To use the javascript in the HTML code, we can grab the script from internet, local directory or defined in the html.
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../jquery.nivo.slider.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(window).load(function() { $('#slider').nivoSlider(); effect: 'random' }); </script>
Image slider/carousel
- Nivo slider Free to abuse.
- High slide Non free for commerical/government use.
Tree
- http://code.stephenmorley.org/javascript/collapsible-lists/
- http://code.google.com/p/dynatree/
- https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-treeview
- http://www.queness.com/post/1138/10-javascriptcss-treeview-and-sitemap-plugins-and-tutorials
Twitter Bootstrap
Tutorial
Examples
Plugins
- http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/ Take a look at ScrollSpy.
- http://jquery-plugins.net/tag/sticky-scroll
- http://bigspotteddog.github.io/ScrollToFixed/
Misc
Cheatsheet
https://hostingfacts.com/html-cheat-sheet/ (23 pages in pdf or 1 in png)
Intro to Graphic Design
https://www.udemy.com/introduction-to-graphic-design/?dtcode=onMH2sD3bj21
Test mobile-friendliness
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/
How to emulate a mobile device in a desktop browser
https://www.digitalcitizen.life/emulate-mobile-device-desktop-browser
Identify font in a web page
- 4 Ways To Quickly Identify Your Favorite Web Page Fonts. For example, it looks like this site is using Open Sans according to the Chrome Developer Tools.
Fonts, icons
- http://icoconvert.com/
- http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
- Kubuntu icons EvolvereSuit
- https://fonts.google.com/
- http://fontawesome.io/icons/ and here
- Icon Fonts Are Awesome for Your Site: Here’s Why
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>MUO Icon Fonts</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css"> <style> html { font-family: helvetica, arial; } @keyframes move { from { margin-left: 0; } to { margin-left: 400px; } } .bike { animation-name: move; animation-duration: 4s; } </style> </head> <body> <i class="fa fa-cog"></i> My First Icon <i class="fa fa-battery-0 fa-lg"></i> <i class="fa fa-battery-1 fa-2x"></i> <i class="fa fa-battery-2 fa-3x"></i> <i class="fa fa-battery-3 fa-4x"></i> <i class="fa fa-battery-4 fa-5x"></i> <i class="fa fa-refresh fa-spin fa-3x"></i> <i class="fa fa-motorcycle fa-5x bike"></i> </body> </html>
Editor
Free images
Free icons
Convert/crop an image to round shape, or different resolutions
- https://www298.lunapic.com/editor/?action=crop (you can manually select an area)
- http://icoconvert.com/ (you cannot select an area)
10 Things You Can Create With Canva With Zero Effort
Cookies
An example to inform visitors https://www.jamescoyle.net/how-to/116-simple-apache-reverse-proxy-example
https://www.cookielaw.org/the-cookie-law/
Section 508 compliant
- https://training.cit.nih.gov/class_details.aspx?cId=NIHCIT-AT100
- https://training.cit.nih.gov/class_details.aspx?cId=NIHCIT-AT173
- https://training.cit.nih.gov/class_details.aspx?cId=NIHCIT-AT171
- Random examples of personal website including publications: Peddada, Nason
An example is to add alt="" to provide an alternative text for an image. Note that alt attribute is not allowed for an a element.
<a href="abc.png"><img src="abc.png" alt="">Visit me</a>
How to force pdf files to open or downloaded in browser
Examples of R package html page
- BCRA R Package (linked from Mitchell H. Gail page
URL Encode/decode (such as Chinese characters) using UTF-8 encoding
- To copy URL with UTF-8 encoding, adding a space at the end of URL in the address bar before copying. It works.
- bing: url decode
- https://www.urldecoder.org/
- https://www.url-encode-decode.com/
Check websites for broken links
- LinkChecker
- bash script lynx_traversal
Developer Tools
- Google Chrome: right click -> Inspect
- Firefox: right click -> Inspect Element. See Open the Inspector.
CGI/Perl
- hello.cgi and form validation
- CGI Programming 101
- http://perlmeme.org/tutorials/cgi_form.html
- http://www.rebol.com/docs/cgi2.html
- http://info.eps.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/cgitutor/cgi3.html
- How to generate webpages using CGI scripts
On Ubuntu, the CGI script should be placed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin folder.
$ ls -l /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.cgi -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 139 2012-11-21 12:19 /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.cgi
Notice that mode is 755 for the executable file. The script
$ cat /usr/lib/cgi-bin/hello.cgi #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<END_HTML; <html> <head></head> <body>Hello, World!</body> </html> END_HTML
Open a web browser and enter http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.cgi.
If the cgi was used in html form, the html code should look like
<FORM ACTION="/cgi-bin/mycgi.pl"> favorite color: <INPUT name="favecolor"> <INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE="Submit"> </FORM>