[Database class] web vs. command-line application

[Paul S. Wang]

Thomas,

Definitely yes on using PHP to set up a web-based application
or a command-line application.  Each student is free to choose one
approach or the other.

Because this is not a web class, we will not be teaching about how
to do the web except to say that our web servers (such as
webdev.cs.kent.edu) are Apache with PHP support built-in.

Your per-student web space is public_html under you home directory.
It is possible to access you web pages there with the URL

webdev.cs.kent.edu/~your-user-id/pagename.php

and your web pages written in php are able to access your
database on dbdev.

Paul
> 
> Mr. Wang,
> 
>    I know the project says that the PHP is going to be command line,
> but I believe I also recall you saying that it could also be web
> based. I can't remember if that's exactly what you were saying or not.
> Anyways, if you did say that, is there something I need to do to get a
> section up for working via browser? I can't connect to the MySQL
> server via remote script, so it makes it a bit more difficult to
> develop. Since the project is suppose to lean towards non-programming
> / non-database people, I don't see how a command line interface would
> match that requirement in any way shape or form.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Thomas Eynon

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