Programming the World Wide Web

by Sebesta, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780321303325
• ISBN10: 0321303326
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley

Summary

Programming the World Wide Web provides a comprehensive introduction to the programming tools and skills required for building and maintaining server sites on the Web. This book is intended for readers who have experience programming with an object-oriented language.

Author Biography

Robert Sebesta is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Table of Contents

Preface	xix
Fundamentals	1	(28)
A Brief Introduction to the Internet	2	(4)
Origins	2	(1)
What the Internet Is	3	(1)
Internet Protocol Addresses	3	(1)
Domain Names	4	(2)
The World Wide Web	6	(1)
Origins	6	(1)
Web or Internet?	7	(1)
Web Browsers	7	(1)
Web Servers	8	(4)
Web Server Operation	8	(1)
General Server Characteristics	9	(1)
Apache	10	(1)
IIS	11	(1)
Uniform Resource Locators	12	(2)
URL Formats	12	(1)
URL Paths	13	(1)
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions	14	(2)
Type Specifications	14	(1)
Experimental Document Types	15	(1)
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol	16	(3)
The Request Phase	16	(2)
The Response Phase	18	(1)
The Web Programmer's Toolbox	19	(6)
Overview of XHTML	20	(1)
Tools for Creating XHTML Documents	20	(1)
Plug-ins and Filters	21	(1)
Overview of XML	22	(1)
Overview of JavaScript	22	(1)
Overview of Java	23	(1)
Overview of Perl	24	(1)
Overview of PHP	24	(1)
Summary	25	(4)
Review Questions	26	(2)
Exercises	28	(1)
Introduction to XHTML	29	(64)
Origins and Evolution of HTML and XHTML	30	(2)
Versions of HTML and XHTML	30	(1)
HTML versus XHTML	31	(1)
Basic Syntax	32	(1)
Standard XHTML Document Structure	33	(2)
Basic Text Markup	35	(10)
Paragraphs	35	(2)
XHTML Document Validation	37	(1)
Line Breaks	38	(1)
Headings	39	(1)
Block Quotations	40	(2)
Font Styles and Sizes	42	(2)
Character Entities	44	(1)
Horizontal Rules	45	(1)
The met a Element	45	(1)
Images	45	(4)
Image Formats	45	(1)
The <img/> Tag	46	(3)
Hypertext Links	49	(4)
Links	49	(3)
Targets within Documents	52	(1)
Using Links	52	(1)
Lists	53	(5)
Unordered Lists	53	(1)
Ordered Lists	54	(3)
Definition Lists	57	(1)
Tables	58	(8)
Basic Table Tags	58	(2)
The rowspan and colspan Attributes	60	(3)
The align and valign Attributes	63	(1)
The cellpadding and cellspacing Attributes	64	(2)
Table Sections	66	(1)
Forms	66	(13)
The <form> Tag	67	(1)
The <input> Tag	67	(4)
The <select> Tag	71	(2)
The <textarea> Tag	73	(1)
The Submit and Reset Buttons	74	(1)
A Complete Form Example	75	(4)
Frames	79	(6)
Framesets	79	(1)
Frames	80	(5)
Syntactic Differences between HTML and XHTML	85	(2)
Summary	87	(6)
Review Questions	88	(2)
Exercises	90	(3)
Cascading Style Sheets	93	(36)
Introduction	94	(1)
Levels of Style Sheets	95	(1)
Style Specification Formats	96	(1)
Selector Forms	97	(3)
Simple Selector Forms	97	(1)
Class Selectors	98	(1)
Generic Selectors	99	(1)
id Selectors	99	(1)
Pseudo Classes	99	(1)
Property Value Forms	100	(2)
Font Properties	102	(6)
Font Families	102	(1)
Font Sizes	103	(1)
Font Styles	103	(1)
Font Weights	104	(1)
Font Shorthands	104	(2)
Text Decoration	106	(2)
List Properties	108	(3)
Color	111	(2)
Color Groups	112	(1)
Color Properties	112	(1)
Alignment of Text	113	(3)
The Box Model	116	(5)
Borders	116	(3)
Margins and Padding	119	(2)
Background Images	121	(2)
The <span> and <div> Tags	123	(1)
Summary	124	(5)
Review Questions	126	(1)
Exercises	127	(2)
The Basics of JavaScript	129	(60)
Overview of JavaScript	130	(3)
Origins	130	(1)
JavaScript and Java	130	(1)
Uses of JavaScript	131	(1)
Event-Driven Computation	132	(1)
Browsers and XHTML/JavaScript Documents	132	(1)
Object Orientation and JavaScript	133	(1)
JavaScript Objects	133	(1)
General Syntactic Characteristics	134	(2)
Primitives, Operations, and Expressions	136	(10)
Primitive Types	136	(1)
Numeric and String Literals	137	(1)
Other Primitive Types	138	(1)
Declaring Variables	138	(1)
Numeric Operators	139	(1)
The Math Object	140	(1)
The Number Object	140	(1)
The String Catenation Operator	141	(1)
Implicit Type Conversions	141	(1)
Explicit Type Conversions	142	(1)
String Properties and Methods	143	(1)
The type of Operator	144	(1)
Assignment Statements	145	(1)
The Date Object	145	(1)
Screen Output and Keyboard Input	146	(4)
Control Statements	150	(8)
Control Expressions	150	(1)
Selection Statements	151	(1)
The switch Statement	152	(3)
Loop Statements	155	(3)
Object Creation and Modification	158	(2)
Arrays	160	(5)
Array Object Creation	160	(1)
Characteristics of Array Objects	160	(3)
Array Methods	163	(2)
Functions	165	(6)
Fundamentals	166	(1)
Local Variables	167	(1)
Parameters	167	(3)
The sort Method, Revisited	170	(1)
An Example	171	(1)
Constructors	172	(2)
Pattern Matching Using Regular Expressions	174	(5)
Character and Character-Class Patterns	174	(3)
Anchors	177	(1)
Pattern Modifiers	177	(1)
Other Pattern-Matching Methods of string	178	(1)
Another Example	179	(2)
Errors in Scripts	181	(2)
Summary	183	(6)
Review Questions	185	(2)
Exercises	187	(2)
JavaScript and HTML Documents	189	(40)
The JavaScript Execution Environment	190	(1)
The Document Object Model	191	(2)
Element Access in JavaScript	193	(3)
Events and Event Handling	196	(4)
Basic Concepts of Event Handling	196	(1)
Events, Attributes, and Tags	197	(3)
Handling Events from Body Elements	200	(1)
Handling Events from Button Elements	201	(6)
Plain Buttons	201	(1)
Checkboxes and Radio Buttons	202	(5)
Handling Events from Text Box and Password Elements	207	(10)
The Focus Event	207	(2)
Validating Form Input	209	(8)
The DOM 2 Event Model	217	(5)
Event Propagation	217	(1)
Event Handler Registration	218	(2)
An Example of the DOM 2 Event Model	220	(2)
The navigator Object	222	(2)
Summary	224	(5)
Review Questions	225	(1)
Exercises	226	(3)
Dynamic Documents with JavaScript	229	(38)
Introduction	230	(1)
Element Positioning	230	(6)
Absolute Positioning	231	(4)
Relative Positioning	235	(1)
Static Positioning	236	(1)
Moving Elements	236	(3)
Element Visibility	239	(2)
Changing Colors and Fonts	241	(3)
Changing Colors	241	(1)
Changing Fonts	242	(2)
Dynamic Content	244	(2)
Stacking Elements	246	(4)
Locating the Mouse Cursor	250	(3)
Reacting to a Mouse Click	253	(1)
Slow Movement of Elements	254	(4)
Dragging and Dropping Elements	258	(4)
Summary	262	(5)
Review Questions	263	(1)
Exercises	264	(3)
Java Applets	267	(30)
Introduction	268	(2)
The Primary Applet Activities	270	(1)
The paintComponent Method	271	(3)
The <object> Tag	274	(1)
Applet Parameters	275	(3)
Simple Graphics	278	(4)
The Coordinate System	278	(1)
Lines	278	(1)
Rectangles	279	(1)
Polygons	280	(2)
Ovals	282	(1)
Color	282	(1)
Interactive Applets	283	(10)
Java Swing GUI Components	284	(4)
The Java Event Model	288	(5)
Summary	293	(4)
Review Questions	293	(1)
Exercises	294	(3)
Introduction to XML	297	(48)
Introduction	298	(2)
The Syntax of XML	300	(3)
XML Document Structure	303	(1)
Document Type Definitions	304	(8)
Declaring Elements	305	(2)
Declaring Attributes	307	(1)
Declaring Entities	308	(1)
A Sample DTD	309	(1)
Internal and External DTDs	310	(2)
Namespaces	312	(2)
XML Schemas	314	(8)
Schema Fundamentals	314	(1)
Defining a Schema	315	(1)
Defining a Schema Instance	316	(1)
An Overview of Data Types	317	(1)
Simple Types	318	(1)
Complex Types	319	(2)
Validating Instances of Schemas	321	(1)
Displaying Raw XML Documents	322	(2)
Displaying XML Documents with CSS	324	(2)
XSLT Style Sheets	326	(9)
Overview of XSLT	327	(1)
XSL Transformations for Presentation	328	(7)
XML Processors	335	(3)
The Purposes of XML Processors	336	(1)
The SAX Approach	337	(1)
The DOM Approach	337	(1)
Web Services	338	(1)
Summary	339	(6)
Review Questions	341	(1)
Exercises	342	(3)
The Basics of Perl	345	(44)
Origins and Uses of Perl	346	(1)
Scalars and Their Operations	346	(6)
Numeric and String Literals	347	(1)
Scalar Variables	348	(1)
Numeric Operators	349	(1)
String Operators	350	(1)
String Functions	351	(1)
Assignment Statements and Simple Input and Output	352	(2)
Assignment Statements	352	(1)
Keyboard Input	352	(1)
Screen Output	353	(1)
Control Statements	354	(5)
Control Expressions	355	(2)
Selection and Loop Statements	357	(2)
Fundamentals of Arrays	359	(6)
List Literals	359	(1)
Arrays	360	(1)
The foreach Statement	361	(1)
Built-in Functions for Arrays and Lists	362	(2)
An Example	364	(1)
Hashes	365	(2)
References	367	(1)
Functions	368	(5)
Fundamentals	368	(1)
Local Variables	369	(1)
Parameters	369	(1)
The sort Function, Revisited	370	(1)
An Example	371	(2)
Pattern Matching	373	(5)
The Basics of Patterns and Pattern Matching	373	(4)
Remembering Matches	377	(1)
Substitutions	377	(1)
The Transliterate Operator	378	(1)
File Input and Output	378	(3)
An Example	381	(2)
Summary	383	(6)
Review Questions	385	(1)
Exercises	386	(3)
Using Perl for CGI Programming	389	(40)
The Common Gateway Interface	390	(2)
CGI Linkage	392	(3)
Query String Format	395	(2)
The CGI.pm Module	397	(10)
Common CGI.pm Functions	397	(4)
A Complete Form Example	401	(6)
A Survey Example	407	(12)
Cookies	419	(5)
Summary	424	(5)
Review Questions	425	(1)
Exercises	426	(3)
Servlets and Java Server Pages	429	(46)
Overview of Servlets	430	(1)
Servlet Details	431	(4)
A Survey Example	435	(7)
Storing Information on Clients	442	(14)
Cookies	442	(9)
Session Tracking	451	(5)
Java Server Pages	456	(14)
Motivations for JSP	456	(1)
JSP Documents	457	(2)
Scriptlets	459	(4)
Expression Language	463	(2)
JSTL Control Action Elements	465	(5)
Summary	470	(5)
Review Questions	471	(1)
Exercises	472	(3)
Introduction to PHP	475	(48)
Origins and Uses of PHP	476	(1)
Overview of PHP	476	(1)
General Syntactic Characteristics	477	(2)
Primitives, Operations, and Expressions	479	(5)
Variables	479	(1)
Integer Type	479	(1)
Double Type	480	(1)
String Type	480	(1)
Boolean Type	480	(1)
Arithmetic Operators and Expressions	481	(1)
String Operations	482	(1)
Scalar Type Conversions	483	(1)
Assignment Operators	484	(1)
Output	484	(2)
Control Statements	486	(3)
Relational Operators	486	(1)
Boolean Operators	486	(1)
Selection Statements	486	(1)
Loop Statements	487	(1)
Alternative Compound Delimiters	487	(1)
An Example	488	(1)
Arrays	489	(9)
Array Creation	489	(2)
Accessing Array Elements	491	(1)
Dealing with Arrays	492	(1)
Sequential Access to Array Elements	493	(2)
Sorting Arrays	495	(3)
Functions	498	(4)
General Characteristics of Functions	498	(1)
Parameters	498	(2)
The Scope of Variables	500	(1)
The Lifetime of Variables	501	(1)
Pattern Matching	502	(3)
Form Handling	505	(6)
Files	511	(3)
Opening and Closing Files	511	(2)
Reading from a File	513	(1)
Writing to a File	514	(1)
Locking Files	514	(1)
Cookies	514	(1)
Session Tracking	515	(1)
Summary	516	(7)
Review Questions	517	(2)
Exercises	519	(4)
Introduction to ASP.NET	523	(42)
Overview of the .NET Framework	523	(3)
Background	523	(1)
The Common Language Runtime	524	(1)
.NET Languages	524	(1)
The Common Language Infrastructure	525	(1)
Introduction to C#	526	(7)
Origins	526	(1)
Primitive Types and Expressions	527	(1)
Data Structures	527	(1)
Control Statements	528	(1)
Classes, Methods, and Structures	529	(1)
Properties	530	(1)
Delegates	531	(1)
Program Structure	531	(1)
File Storage for Programs	532	(1)
Introduction to ASP.NET	533	(6)
The Basics	533	(2)
ASP.NET Documents	535	(2)
Code-Behind Files	537	(2)
ASP.NET Controls	539	(16)
HTML Controls	539	(2)
Life Cycle of a Simple ASP.NET Document	541	(3)
Page-Level Events	544	(1)
Control Events	545	(2)
Web Controls	547	(1)
Creating Control Elements with Code	548	(1)
Response Output for Controls	549	(1)
An Example	550	(2)
Validation Controls	552	(3)
Web Services	555	(5)
Constructing Web Services	555	(4)
Advertising Web Services	559	(1)
Summary	560	(5)
Review Questions	561	(2)
Exercises	563	(2)
Database Access through the Web	565	(50)
Relational Databases	566	(4)
An Introduction to the Structured Query Language	570	(5)
The Create Table SQL Command	570	(1)
The Insert SQL Command	571	(1)
The Select SQL Command	571	(1)
The Update SQL Command	572	(1)
The Delete SQL Command	572	(1)
The Drop SQL Command	573	(1)
Joins	573	(2)
Architectures for Database Access	575	(3)
Client/Server Architectures	575	(1)
Database Access with Embedded SQL	576	(1)
The Microsoft Access Architecture	576	(1)
The Perl DBI/DBD Architecture	577	(1)
PHP and Database Access	577	(1)
The Java JDBC Architecture	577	(1)
The MySQL Database System	578	(3)
Database Access with Perl and MySQL	581	(5)
The DBI Module	581	(2)
An Example	583	(3)
Database Access with PHP and MySQL	586	(10)
Potential Problems with Special Characters	586	(1)
Connecting to MySQL and Selecting a Database	587	(1)
Requesting MySQL Operations	588	(1)
A PHP/MySQL Example	589	(7)
Database Access with JDBC and MySQL	596	(14)
Approaches to Using JDBC Outside the Web	596	(1)
JDBC and MySQL	597	(4)
A Complete JDBC/MySQL Example	601	(3)
Metadata	604	(2)
JDBC and Servlets	606	(4)
Summary	610	(5)
Review Questions	612	(1)
Exercises	613	(2)
Appendix Introduction to Java	615	(18)
Index	633