Transcript CIS101 week 08

CIS101
Introduction to Computing
Week 08
Agenda
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Your questions
Resume project
HTML Project Six
This week online
Next class
The resume project
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Completed resume due next class
meeting
Counts as 10% of final grade
Will be graded on A, B, C scale
Complete resume along with any
required image files must be uploaded
to your personal Web space
What to hand in
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Submit printout of html code
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Submit Printout of resume
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Open resume code in 1st page 2000 then
select File, print
Open resume in browser then select File,
print
Include your name on all printouts!
HTML Project Six
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Describe the different form controls
Use the <FORM> tag
Use the <INPUT> tag
Create radio buttons
Create a text field
Create a textarea field
Project six cont.
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Use the <SELECT> tag
Use the <OPTION> tag
Create a selection menu
Insert options into a selection menu
Create a Submit button
Create a Reset button
What are forms?
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Forms allow Web sites to collect and submit
information in an automated standardized
way
Forms interact with Web page visitors in a
variety of ways:
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Get feedback about the Web page
Find out who is visiting the Web page
Sell products or services
Act as a guestbook
Creating Web Page forms
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A Web page form has three
components
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FORM tag, which contains the information
necessary to process the form
Input controls
Submit button, which sends the data to be
processed
Input controls
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An input control is a type of input
mechanism on a form
A data input control allows a user to
simply make a selection
A text input control allows the user to
enter text into the control (see table 6-1
on p. 6.06)
Input controls
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Each input control has the following one or
two attributes
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NAME: Identifies the specific information that is
being sent
All controls have a NAME
VALUE: The data that is contained in the named
input control
When user clicks submit button, NAME and
VALUE are sent
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See figure 6-18 on p. 6-18 for sample of data
submitted from form
Start project six
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Create project six folder on your desktop
Copy the following files into project six folder
(obtain from http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer)
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survey1.htm
survey2.htm
Start 1st Page 2000 and open survey1.htm for
editing
<FORM> Attributes
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METHOD specifies how the form’s data
is sent to the server
METHOD=POST sends a separate data
file to the URL
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another option is METHOD=GET, we won’t
use it
This project will utilize the POST
method
<FORM> Attributes cont.
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ACTION: specifies the action that will be
taken when the form is submitted
For this project data will be sent via e-mail
Another alternative is to send data to Web
server (see p. 6.11)
Web sites can process information from forms
using Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
scripting
Adding Radio Buttons
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Project has two sets of radio buttons to
allow the visitor to select only one
option from a list of options
Visitors can select only one item per
group
Radio buttons that have the same name
belong to the same group (see p. 6.13)
Submit and reset buttons
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Submit sends a file like the one
displayed in figure 6-18 (p. 6.18) to the
specified e-mail address
Reset clears data from form fields
Using Selection Menus
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The SELECT control creates a selection
menu
This control only allows the visitor to
choose pre-defined choices
There are four types of selection menus
(see p. 6.23 for examples)
Open up survey2.htm
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Save survey1.htm
Open up survey2.htm using 1st Page
2000
You will add selection menus to this
Web page
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Radio buttons p. 6.26
Selection controls and menu p. 6.27
Add submit and reset buttons p. 6.30
Testing the Submit Buttons
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SUBMIT currently sends file to pretend e-mail
address ([email protected])
To test out your code, replace [email protected]
with your e-mail address in both survey1.htm
and survey2.htm
Then test the page:
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Open it in a browser
Enter values in all controls
Click the Submit button
Check your e-mail to see if file arrived
This week online
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Readings
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Concepts Chapter 4, “The System Unit”
HTML Project Six
This week’s Quiz
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Concepts Chapter 4, “The System Unit”
Next class meeting
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Bring your JavaScript book to class
We will begin new topic in class next
week
Hand in completed resume project
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Resume and image files uploaded to Web
space
Printout of resume
Printout of html code