1. Business 54 - Introduction to eCommerce Spring 2008 1 C4 - February 20, 2008

2. 2 Class Game Plan C4 - February 20, 2008  Discussion of Web Technologies.  Lab Time.

3. 3 C4 - February 20, 2008 What are the basic Open Source Web Technologies?  LAMP.  Linux-Server Operating System.  Apache-Web Server Manager.  MYSQL-Database Engine.  PHP (/HTML)-Programming Language(s).

4. 4 C4 - February 20, 2008  Unix-like computer operating system.  Vista for servers.  Developed in 1991 by Linus Torvalds.  Linux is largely driven by its developer and user communities.  Some commercial iterations such as Red Hat does with Fedora. Linux

5. 5 C4 - February 20, 2008  The Apache Software Foundation – http://www.apache.orghttp://www.apache.org  Decentralized community of developers.  Apache HTTP Server - 1994.  Serves up Static Content and Dynamic Web pages.  Key feature = Virtual Hosting:  allows one Apache installation to serve many different actual websites. Apache

6. 6 C4 - February 20, 2008 MYSQL  http://www.mysql.com/http://www.mysql.com/  First release in 1995.  A multithreaded, multi-user SQL data base management system (DBMS).  More than 10 million installations.  Created by for-profit firm, the Swedish company MYSQL AB.  To be acquired by Sun Microsystems for approximately US $1 billion.

7. 7 C4 - February 20, 2008  http://www.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/  Hypertext Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages.  Provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document.  Supplements text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects.  HTML is written in the form of tags.  Allows for Embedded scripting language code (JavaScript).  Tim Berners-Lee / 1991. HTML

8. 8 C4 - February 20, 2008 Sample HTML Code MPC Bus54 Spring 2008 Course Page <!--.style1 {font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; } -->

9. 9 C4 - February 20, 2008 Business 54 – Introduction to E-Commerce Web page Syllabus Class # Slides Assignments Other 2 Slides Self Assessment Form Sample HTML Code

10. 10 C4 - February 20, 2008 PHP The main implementation is produced by The PHP Group. Created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. PHP is a computer scripting language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. Acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. PHP is used mainly in server-side scripting. The most recent version of PHP is 5.2.5, released in November 2007.

11. 11 C4 - February 20, 2008 Sample PHP Code <?php FOR ($c =0; $c<$art_count; $c++) { list ($art_head, $art_link, $art_source, $art_comments) = mysql_fetch_row($fart); PRINT" $art_head $art_source $art_comments "; } PRINT" "; ?>

12. 12 C4 - February 20, 2008 Questions…… (and maybe some) Answers

13. 13 C4 - February 20, 2008 Lab Time