CSE 154: Web Programming, Autumn 2012

Section 11: Web Services and JSON

Exercises: No exercises are due at section this week. Just show up to get the credit.

Section 10: Ajax and XML

Exercises: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your JavaScript solution code to section to turn in. You may want to consult textbook Chapter 12 and/or the Ajax lecture slides.

1. Given the following HTML code (complete) and JS code (skeleton):

   <div>
     <input id="month" type="text" size="4" ... /> /
     <input id="day"   type="text" size="4" ... />
     <button id="go">Go!</button>
   </div>
   
   <div id="results"></div>
   

   Add the necessary JavScript code so that when the Go button is clicked, the page uses Ajax to show the user's astrological sign and horoscope. (You don't need to modify the HTML file.) Ajax code only works on a server, so you must upload your page to Webster and test it there.

   Your page uses Ajax to contact a PHP service on webster at the horoscope.php URL below, using a GET request. The PHP service requires two parameters named month and day representing the month and day of birth of the person, and then it outputs the sign and horoscope for that person as HTML code. You should fetch the HTML text sent back by this PHP service and put it into your page in the div with the id of results.

   The PHP service's URL is: https://webster.cs.washington.edu/cse154/sections/ajax/horoscope-server.php
   For example, if your birthday is 9/19, you would contact it with this URL: https://webster.cs.washington.edu/cse154/sections/ajax/horoscope-server.php?month=9&day=19

   Here's what it will look like once you have it working. You don't need to check for valid input or handle any Ajax errors, but it might help you to listen to onFailure and onException events to help find any potential errors. For reference, our solution adds 9 lines (6 "substantive") to the skeleton provided.

   

Section 9: Ajax

Exercises: No exercises are due at section this week. Just show up to get the credit.

Section 8: DOM

Exercises: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. Given the following HTML code:

   <div><h1>Section 8 Problem Page</h1></div>
   
   <div id="formtovalidate">
     <div><input type="text" value="Billy Bob" /> Name</div>
     <div><input type="text" value="" /> Email Address</div>
     <div><input type="text" value="98195" /> ZIP Code</div>
     <div><input type="text" value="" /> Mailing Address</div>
     <div><input type="text" value="" /> Telephone Number</div>
     <div><input type="password" value="abc123" /> Password</div>
   </div>
   
   <p>Click the 'Validate' button below to highlight every form field that is invalid (blank)!</p>
   <div><button id="validate">validate</button></div>
   

   Write the necessary JavaScript code so that when the Validate button is clicked, every input in the form that has a blank value (empty string) will be highlighted with a "red" background color, as shown in the screenshots below. If a text box already has the red background but is then changed to non-blank, and the Validate button is clicked again, then you should remove the red background color by setting the background to an empty string, "". You should not modify the HTML or CSS code; write only JavaScript. Use the document.querySelectorAll function taught in lecture. For reference, our solution is 14 lines long (9 "substantive").

   

Section 7: JavaScript

Exercise: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. The following HTML page attempts to predict who will win the 2012 US Presidential election. Modify the page and add JavaScript code so it randomly chooses Obama half the time and Romney half the time, every time the user clicks on the "?" image. Here are two example outputs from clicking the image

   

   (Use Math.random to randomly choose between the two candidates. If you like one of the candidates more than the other, you can go ahead and skew your probability toward your candidate by giving them more than 0.5 out of the total 1.0 number range; but don't just always set them to be the winner, because we want you to practice using Math.random.) Your code does not need to use "unobtrusive JavaScript" as discussed in class, but you may if you like.

Section 6: SQL Queries

Exercise: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. Write a query in SQL that displays the names of all countries in Europe that have a population of at least 25,000,000, sorted by name in ABC order. You won't be able to solve the problem until after Monday's lecture or until you have read some of Chapter 13 on SQL. (If you got the right answer, you should see 8 countries, from France to United Kingdom.)

   You can develop your query on Webster in SSH, or using the following query tester page.

   • Webster SQL Query Tester Page

Section 5: Cookies; Regular Expressions

Exercises: No exercises are due at section this week. Just show up to get the credit.

Section 4: Forms

Exercise: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. Given the following HTML page, add a form that looks like this:

   

   The form should submit its data to http://webster.cs.washington.edu/params.php when the user presses the Eat button. Here's an example of what it should look like if the form above were submitted with the above data in it:

   

   • Use the query parameter names meat, veggies, and name to represent the data being submitted.
   • The user can select only one meat at a time.
   • (optional) The text near the check boxes and radio buttons should be clickable.
   • (optional) Initially, chicken should be the selected meat, and both lettuce and tomato should be selected.

Section 3: Floating Layouts and Basic PHP

Exercise: Solve the following one (1) problem on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. Given the following HTML and CSS code:

   <div id="one">one</div>
   <div id="two">two two</div>
   <div id="three">three three<br />three</div>
   <div id="four">four<br />four<br />four four</div>
   <div id="five">five five<br />five five five</div>
   <div id="six">six six six six <br /> six six</div>
   <div id="seven">seven seven seven seven seven seven seven</div>
   

   body     { text-align: center; }
   div      { border: 1px dashed gray; padding: 0.5em; margin: 0.5em; }
   #one     { background-color: #ff9999; }
   #two     { background-color: yellow; }
   #three   { background-color: #ccffcc; }
   #four    { background-color: #ccccff; }
   #five    { background-color: #ffdddd; }
   #six     { background-color: #cccccc; }
   #seven   { background-color: #9999ff; }
   

   What CSS must be added to produce the following floating layout? Assume that the width of items like "one" and "seven" in the picture below constitutes 100% of the page width.

   

Section 2: Page Layout and Box Model; Firebug

Exercises: Solve the following two (2) problems on paper (or solve on computer and print it out) and bring a paper copy of your solution to section to turn in.

1. The following HTML code has errors that make it fail the W3C HTML validator. Indicate the errors in the code and show a corrected version of the code. (You can copy-paste the code into the validator as direct input.)

   <!DOCTYPE html>
   <html>
       /* CSE 154, week 2, by John Doe */
       <title>Section 2 Page</title>
       <link src="mypage.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
       <body>
           <h1>My Section 2 Web Page<h1>
           <p>Here is why my section is the best:
               <ul>
                   <li>smartest students</li>
                   <li>best TA</li>
                   <li>TA looks like a cat: <img src="cat.jpg" title="a cat"></img></li>
               </ul>
           </p>
           Our section is > all other sections & you know it!
       </html>
   </!DOCTYPE>
   

2. The following CSS code has errors that make it fail the W3C CSS validator. Indicate the errors in the code and show a corrected version of the code. Also, add a short comment header to the CSS code and add a new CSS rule that makes all paragraphs use the "justified" text alignment.

   body {
       background-color: white,
       foreground-color: red;
   }
   
   h1 {
       font-align: "centered";
   }
   
   h2 {
       font-decoration; underlined;
   }
   
   li (
       font-name: Times New Roman; serif;
   )
   

Section 1: Internet / WWW

Exercises: No exercises are due at section this week. Just show up to get the credit.