1. Website Generator for SoftLab By Yohann SABBAH & Mikael V.H Cohen -Under the supervision of Viktor Kulikov- Final Presentation 7/20/2015

2. Goal of the project 7/20/2015

3. Abstract Designing a website generator for Technion Labs Intuitive interface for Website creation Website administration Goal of the project 7/20/2015

4. Some facts A classy Technion lab website is always composed by the following types of elements: HTML basic page Lists of people – As list of supervisors, list of professors… Lists of projects proposal Lists of finished projects Lists of links Certain pages contain several different elements Goal of the project 7/20/2015

5. Technion Lab Website principle 1. First, create Sub-pages: 1. Choosing the type of each Sub-page 2. Chose a name for each sub-page 3. Can create many sub-pages of the same type 2. Then, create Pages – A page is composed of one or many sub-pages 1. Choosing a name for each page 2. Filling a page with one or many sub-pages 3. Now, we create our Website- A website is composed of one or many pages 1. Choosing pages and their order 4. Finally, we fill the sub-pages with elements 1. An element can be in many sub-pages Goal of the project 7/20/2015

6. Used Technologies 7/20/2015

7. Used Technologies 1. PHP recursive acronym for "PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor“ 2. Widely-used Open Source scripting language 3. Especially suited for Web development 4. Used for producing dynamic web pages 5. Can be embedded into HTML. PHP - 1 7/20/2015

8. Used Technologies 1. PHP includes a large number of free and open source libraries 2. Real Object Oriented Programming Language 3. Commonly install on Apache Server allow to interact with Database like Mysql 4. PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting PHP - 2 7/20/2015

9. Used Technologies PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its input and creating Web pages as output PHP - Communication client-server 7/20/2015

10. Used Technologies Smarty - 1 1. Smarty is a web template engine system written in PHP. 2. Allow separation between the Logic and the Presentation 3. Why templates ? 1. Ease of design change 2. Ease of interface localization 3. Possibility to work separately on design and code by different people at one and the same time 7/20/2015

11. Used Technologies Smarty - 2 - Why Smarty ? 1. Very fast compare to other template engines 2. Creates PHP scripts from templates instead of parsing template 3. Smarty re-compiles templates only when make changes to them. 4. Caching : caches the output of the template contents. Saves from having to connect to the database every time your Web page is accessed. 7/20/2015

12. Used Technologies MySQL 1. MySQL is a multithreaded, multi-user SQL database management system. 2. Popular for web applications. 3. Closely tied to PHP. 4. Allow all sort of queries. 5. PhpMyAdmin: friendly user interface to manage database develop on PHP. 7/20/2015

13. Used Technologies CCS 1. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): style sheet language used to describe the presentation of a html document. 2. Define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document 3. Why CSS? more flexibility control the specification of presentational characteristics reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. 7/20/2015

14. Used Technologies Javascript 1. JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client- side. 2. JS functions are embedded in HTML pages and interact with the Document Object Model (DOM) of the page 3. Respond to user actions quickly, making an application feel more responsive 4. Detect user actions which HTML alone cannot 7/20/2015

15. Used Technologies Security 1. Administration is protected by username and password 2. Encryption using a MD5 provider that itself implements an algorithm based on a cryptographic hash function. 3. Used of Session and cookies 7/20/2015

16. Database Design 7/20/2015

17. Sub-page “People” 7/20/2015 DataBase Design

18. List of Pages 7/20/2015 DataBase Design

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20. OOP Design 7/20/2015

21. OOP Design SmartyClass 1. SmartyClass are responsible for: read template assign variables to the templates files show template files (.tpl) 7/20/2015

22. Page_header.tpl Page_footer.tplMain_menu.tpl MIDDLE PAGE CONTENT OOP Design Smarty Templates - 1 1. Page divided into many templates 2. Our template design: main_page.tpl 7/20/2015

23. OOP Design Smarty Templates - 2 1.Entity Page that represents a standard page 2.Entity Sub-Page represents by his template file 3.Each page is divided in a list of sub-pages 7/20/2015

24. OOP Design Other Classes 1. DBConnection: responsible for: Connection / Disconnection to the Database All the query to the DB 2.ConfigClass: responsible for: Build a standard page: get all templates and assign them to the main page template Contain helpful functions that we use in many PHP files. 7/20/2015

25. T he End… 7/20/2015 Thanks….. Thanks to Victor for his help Follow the guide for the demo