Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach An E-Commerce Approach

by Scobey, Porter; Lingras, Pawan

• ISBN13: 9780763773878
• ISBN10: 0763773875
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781284062472
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781284070682
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-01
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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Summary

Today's Web programmers are required to understand and use the tools and skills for both client and server-side programming. Web Programming and Internet Technologies: An E-Commerce Approach provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to creating fully functioning websites with e-commerce capabilities. Ideal for the one-term course, or as a self-learning guide for professionals, the authors weave a continuing case study of a real-world commercial enterprise throughout the text that gradually grows in sophistication. Introductory chapters ask readers to create a simple website that uses the basic features of XHTML they will continue to modify and expand upon their early work, creating a centralized mechanism for changing the look and feel of the site, developing cascading style sheets, incorporating JavaScript, XML, PHP, and much more. A CD-ROM is included with every new copy of the text and includes all pre-tested programs and web pages, as well as links to the additional resources mentioned in the exercises from the text. With it's hands-on, active-learning approach, students using this text will see first-hand the many levels and capabilities of programming for the world wide web.Key Features:-Based on a real business model, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of creating a complete website with e-commerce capabilities.-Uses a project-based approach that asks readers to develop a website whose functionality will parallel that of the real-world case study in the text.-Includes examples and screen shots of real websites throughout for readers to reference.-Presents and utilizes all of the maintstream and relevant open-source and widely used technologies; ISP's, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, XML, and more.-Every chapter concludes with a collection of activities to assure the reader has a full understanding of the chapter material. These activities include: quick questions to test the readers basic knowledge of the content; short exercises to improve basic understanding; 'exercises on the parallel project' that guide the reader through creating his/her own fully functional commercial website; a section titled 'What Else You May Want or Need to Know', containing additional information relevant to the chapter; and finally, a reference section with links to websites for further details and explanations of the topics covered in the chapter.-The accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the web pages and programs presented in the text, as well as references and links to relevant software programs.-Instructor resources include PowerPoint lecture outlines, answers to the end of chapter questions and exercises, Test Bank, and PowerPoint image bank.

Table of Contents

Chapter1 Setting the Scene
Chapter2 Establishing a Web Presence
Chapter3 XHTML for Content Structure
Chapter4 CSS for Content Presentation
Chapter5 XHTML Forms for Data Collection and Submission
Chapter6 JavaScript for Client-Side Computation and Data Validation
Chapter7 JavaScript for Client-Side Content Behavior
Chapter8 PHP for Server-Side Preprocessing
Chapter9 MySQL for Server-Side Data Storage
Chapter10 PHP and MySQL for Client-Server Database Interaction
Chapter11 XML (eXtensible Markup Language) for Data Description
Chapter12 Collecting, Analyzing and Using Visitor Data