1. HTML Forms What are clients? What are servers?
What is PHP? How does it resemble HTML? What is different from HTML?
How are variables written in PHP?
How do HTML forms pass variables to a PHP script?
What is the difference between the GET and POST method for a form?

2. Any person on the Web can browse to: User SPARTY’s Web Page in AFS:
MSU Web Pages are Files in AFS
Any person on the Web can browse to:
MSU Web Server
User SPARTY’s Web Page in AFS:
u:\msu\user\s\p\sparty\web\day06.html

3. CSE 103 PHP Scripts are Files in AFS
Any person on the Web can browse to:
web/form_handler.php
CSE 103 Web Server with PHP
cse103.egr.msu.edu
User SPARTY’s Web Page in AFS:
u:\msu\user\s\p\sparty\web\ form_handler.php

4. HTML Forms and PHP What tag is makes a text field in a form?
What tag is makes the button to submit a form?
How does the form specify the location of the PHP page used to process the data submitted by the user?
How does PHP refer to the values that were entered by the user into a form field?
What command is used to print out the value of a form field in a PHP script?
What parts of the PHP source do not appear as part of the HTML output of the PHP page?

5. Time Stamping a Page
Use PHP functions to put a time stamp on your page
time() returns the current time (in UNIX format)
date() write the time in a human readable format
The manual pages for these functions can be reached from the Classwork page for today
Display the timestamp in the form
Monday, March 22, :23pm

6. On which day of the week were you born
Modify the form
Add boxes to find out the month, day, and year that the user was born on
Modify the script
Use the information about the date obtained from the form and the mktime() function to display the day of the week on which the user was born.

7. Formatting forms with tables
Which tag is used to specify the start of the table?
Which tag is used to specify a row?
Which tag is used to specify a column?
How do you specify how much of the window the table should take up horizontally?
Where are the contents of the table cells?