Lab #2 - Form input using PHP

CS 183 - Hypermedia and the Web

The goal of this assignment is to understand how to use PHP to read and process input generated by an HTML form. For this assignment, you must use the following HTML form (with associated PHP). (Store as form.php).

The example HTML form and PHP handling code shown in class can be found here (use the browser's view source to see both):

• HTML form (need to name it input.html and place it in your public_html directory)
• PHP handler (will show up as blank -- view source, then save the source as handler.php Make sure you place it in your public_html directory. Must be in the same directory as the HTML form).

In this lab assignment, the form has input fields for 4 distinct courses a student has taken, their units and the grades the student have received.

Your script must be able to process the values and provide a transcript report page in HTML as output. Note that you will have to modify the form action to point to the PHP script you create as your answer to this assignment. An example output of this PHP script can be found here. Your output format can be different from this example, but the transcript report output must contain the following:

• Each line of input showing the name of the course name, the course units, the grade, and the evalution for this grade. The evalution is A if the grade is greater than or equal to 90; it is B if the grade is between 80 and 89; it is C if the grade is between 70 and 79; it is D if the grade is between 60 and 69; it is E if the grade is below 60.
• Total units the student has taken.
• The average grade for the courses on the transcript report.

Please note the following rules to be considered regarding empty fields:

• If all fields are empty when the user presses submit, he or she should be returned to the form.
• If within any line either the course name or grade is empty, or an invalid grade (nonnumeric) is entered then that line should be ignored on the report.
• If the units is empty for any course then it should be assumed to be 5.

For submission please email pankai [at] cse [dot] ucsc [dot] edu your php script and a URL to your copy of the form that will trigger your script.

Last modified: 4/3/2005