COP3832, Spring 2000, Assignment 5

Due Monday 4/3 at the start of class

Do not use JavaScript in this assignment

Create a link on your main server's home page to this script.

Create a script that requires a user to log in. Use the social security number as the user name.  There will be several different pages that will be displayed by this script:

• There will be a Log In page that requires the user to enter a social security number.
• There will be a Form page that displays the data from the file in a form that the user can edit. It will be the same form as in assignment 4, without the social security number. There will be a submit button on this page.
• There will be a Confirmation page that displays the user's data in HTML (not in form elements) and allows the user to Confirm that the data is correct, or allows the user to click an Edit button and return to the Form page.
• There will be a Thankyou page that displays all the data that has been added to the data base. List the social security number as well as all the other data from the form. All data should be in a nice, readable format. There will be a button that takes the user to the File page.
• There will be a File page that displays the entire contents of the database in a readable format. Also, include a link back to the Log In page, but do not send a query string to it.
• Each page should use a different background color, text color and link color. Each page should have a different title.

Use the following logic in the script:

• Create a database on the server that uses the social security number as the index.
• Require the user to enter a social security number on the Log In page. If the social security number is not provided, then print a suitable message on the Log In page and request the social security number again. Write the valid social security number to a cookie.
• If there is a cookie with a social security number, then do not display the Log In page, but go directly to the Confirmation page.
• If the social security number is not in the data base, then display the Form page. The user must supply data for all fields. If all the data is valid, then display the Confirmation page, otherwise redisplay the Form page with all of the user's data (make it sticky). When redisplaying the Form page, create an unordered list indicating which fields need to be corrected, and what is wrong with them. Do not display a list of invalid fields when the Form page is first displayed. Only show the invalid fields after the user has clicked the submit button.
• If the social security number is in the database, then display the Confirmation page with the user's data.
• From the Confirmation page, if the user clicks the Confirm button, then write the new data to the file and display the Thankyou page. If the user clicks the Edit button, then go back to the Form page with all the user's data filled in (make it sticky).
• From the Thankyou page, if the user selects the View File button then display the File page.