CSC 101 -- Lab 4
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Summer
2011
Present …
Completed Pre-Lab activities …
– Created a folder lab4
– Read tutorials on client-server computing,
CGI and HTML forms
CGI,
– Read tutorial on scripting
– Printed lab instructions/report for today
… Future
– Participate in pre-lab
– Use Dreamweaver to create a new web page
containing a form and other neat things!
– Upload your file to the web server
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FACT: The web pages you have created this
semester have been “passive” and “static”
This week you’ll develop a web page that
actually does something besides
displaying information!
What is …
• a server-side script?
• what are server-side scripts used for?
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• Actually what you do in lab today will be
slightly more sophisticated because you
will be working with two different servers.
How do we …
• develop a web page that can send data to a
server-side script?
• we learn how to develop web pages
containing ____________
FORMS
CAUTION
• Page 2 of instructions:
Action -http://www.wfu.edu/~pryoree/csc101/guestbook.php
• It is critical that you follow the lab instructions
carefully and use the correct names for the
following form elements in today’s lab:
name, email, rating, comments
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