Final Exam Topics

These are the topics that I covered in the second half of the semester.

Perl

• Chapter 5
  • adding and deleting elements
  • keys and values
  • looping through a hash
• Chapter 7
  • matching with / /
  • character patterns with [ ]
  • special symbols: \d \w \s \D \W \S
  • grouping: * + ?
  • memory: ( ) \1 $1
  • anchoring: ^ $ \b \B
  • using =~
  • substitutions with s/ / /
  • split and join
• Chapter 8
  • defining functions
  • invoking functions
  • returning values
  • passing arguments
  • private my variables and global variables
• Chapter 10
  • opening and closing a file
  • reading from a file
  • writing to a file
  • testing for file existence
• Chapter 12
  • translation using tr/ / /
• Chapter 17
  • opening and closing a dbm file
  • adding, deleting and changing elements

Html - Chapter 5

• Standard Codes - html, head, body, title
• Paragraphs, line breaks and horizontal rules
• Body Tag
• Links
• URLs - relative and absolute

Server

• Chapter 3
  • AddHandler cgi-script .cgi-extension
  • ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /path/to/cgi-bin
  • Alias directive
  • Options
    • All
    • None
    • Multiviews
    • ExecCGI
    • Includes
    • IncludesNoExec
    • Indexes
    • FollowSymLinks
  • Mime types
  • Error Documents
  • Log files
  • Specific Directives
    • ScriptAlias
    • Alias
    • AddHandler
    • AddType
    • ErrorDocument
    • Location
    • Directory
    • Options
• Chapter 8
  • Passing parameters in the URL
  • Format of the query string
  • Using Fill-Out forms
    • action, method
    • text, hidden, password, textarea
    • submit, reset, image
    • select, multiple select, radio, checkbox
  • Accessing scripts using a form (gateways)
  • Server Side Includes
    • echo
    • include
    • exec
      • cmd
      • cgi
• Chapter 10
  • Executing a system command (`date`,calendar.pl)
  • Retrieving Server and Browser information (%ENV, printenv.pl)
  • Knowing when a script is called the first time (calendar3.pl)
  • Using parse-lib.pl to get the query string (get_query( ))
  • Using CGI.pm to get the query string
  • Preserving state (making forms sticky)
  • Writing cookies to the browser (Set-cookie: name; expires=date; path=path)
  • Retrieving the cookie using parse-lib (get_cookie( ))
  • File uploads using CGI.pm (multipary/form-data)
  • Server Push (nph-script.pl, multipart/x-mixed-replace, boundary)
  • Browser Pull (Refresh: seconds)

CGI Scripting

• be able to write scripts: perform operation on server
• how do you know if the script is being called the first time
• query string: know what it looks like for a GET
• get, post
• making forms sticky (maintaining state)
• generating different pages based on input or a calculation
• displaying name/value pairs using parse-lib.pl
• file access: dbmopen and dbmclose
• multipart/form-data

JavaScript

• alert
• data types
• functions
• if statements
• loops
• object heirarchy for a web page (window, document, frames, links, elements, etc)
  • methods for objects (open, close, etc)
  • properties for objects (length, value, selectedIndex, checked, etc)
• form: name, validate before submitting
• events: onClick, onSubmit, onChange, onFocus, onBlur, onMouseOver, onMouseOut