in section tomorrow, i'll be going over some of the following topics. in particular, we'll be discussing the relevance of these topics to the part of the project dealing with the Bank of America site.

- SSL from PHP
- HTTP headers
- HTTP POST

ABOUT THE HTTPS PROBLEM:
Please see Alan Su's response. If you have the Yahoo parts of the project completely done already, then congratulations, you are well ahead of schedule.

ABOUT asdf's QUESTION ON 4/6:
If you can find the Homeworth information on another public web site, e.g. number of bedrooms and bathrooms, you may use it. In this case, please post the link. I am not aware of any other site with the same info, unfortunately.

"BEST COMPARABLE SALE"
We mean the house identified by Homeworth as the best recent comparable sale. You should write your PHP code so that it takes an address as input, then finds the necessary information. This way you can use alternative definitions of closest comparable house. Yes, your web site should display info about two houses, like Homeworth does.

LECTURE NOTES
These will be posted after each lecture. I edit them after the lecture, before posting, to include info that wasn't in them before. Reading the notes is not a substitute for coming to class.

ABOUT THE REPORT
We can't provide a past report because this is a brand-new class. You are welcome to bring your outline or your draft to a TA office hour to discuss it and get ideas for improving it. The report should be detailed enough to be interesting, but it should also be five pages at most. You should use the report-writing skills that you learned in your general education and lab science classes. These skills are important for software jobs with top companies.

Charles Elkan

Edited by author 04-11-2001 05:33 PM
we're still in the process of deciding the specifics of how to handle this case. at this point, we have solutions for the https problem at various levels, but we're weighing the costs and benefits of having the project include certain details versus giving you the infrastructure to ignore those details.

the project is structured in parts which are largely independent. you should be completely done with the portion of the project which deals with the Yahoo! site. if you feel that you abolutely cannot make progress on the project without resolution on this issue, send me (alsu@cs.ucsd.edu) mail.

What good is this board if no prof/ta's don't answer any questions. There is one post from 'asdf' on 4/6 that hasn't been answered yet. I'm waiting for that persons response.

Hi,
For project 1, what does this mean specifically?

'Your web site should display all the same information above about the best recent comparable sale.'

How do we choose the best comparable sale? By distance, price or any other means?
Also, does the above statement mean that we'll display two houses when we search one address? (One with the same address, and the best comparable one)
Thank you.

Can you post the lecture notes prior to the class session? This will help us to know what you will cover in the specified class.

Question about the report for project 1.

Specifically, how detailed should the report be. Can you provide an outline? past reports? content? etc...

The vague guidelines don't do justice.

the mysql binary on ieng9 is located at /software/nonrdist/mysql/bin/mysql.

How do you login to insci14 to actually do project 1? I have tried multiple times, but it keeps saying that the mysql command is not found.

Edited by author 04-06-2001 03:08 PM
PROJECT: I personally would like to learn how to use ssl with php.

MESSAGE BOARD: Threads would be nice.

Can we use other sites besides homeworth? I think this would alieviate the issue with HTTPS

ABOUT THE MESSAGE BOARD:
We agree that threads would be useful, and Quicktopic does not have them directly. We will probably transition to Discus, but Discus has its own disadvantages.

ABOUT THE PROJECT:
The HomeWorth site uses HTTP encryption, which is complicated to deal with using PHP. Until we fix this problem (soon!), you should work on the part of the project that uses Yahoo sites.

Charles Elkan

As far as the message board goes, why don't we just use Discus, like most other CSE classes? It's simple to use an I'm sure most people have had at least one class that's used it.

http://discus.ucsd.edu

https URL: we are aware that PHP does not support https urls via the fopen() function as it does vanilla http urls. we're looking into various possible solutions to this issue; watch the message board for updates.

message board: while we're on the topic, we also know that the current message board system is lacking in some ways, particularly the ability to create discussion threads. infopop.com's Ultimate Bulletin Board is unfortunately not an option, due to cost. until we identify an alternative solution, please continue using this forum.

How to : test your scripts on ieng9.

you have to create a "public_html" directory in your home directory. Then you have to set the rights on that directory to be executable. Set also the right of your account directory to executable.

Basically : your account is cs134szz
When you log in you are in the directory cs134szz.
do : cd ..
set the rights to executable : chmod 711 cs134szz
go to your directory : cd cs134szz
create the directory : mkdir public_html
set the rights : chmod 711 public_html

then put one of your basic code (test.php) in the public_html directory. You can test it using your browser:
ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs134szz/test.php

I have a suggestion to the professor & TAs: I don't think this discussion board will work very well for this class. Why don't you try something like Ultimate Bulletin Board (http://www.infopop.com/).