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final portfolio question
September 06, 2012 10:05AM
Do we need create an extra database table to store user/login details (or how can we distinguish between students and Administrator ? ). I can not find anything on the Tut Letter about user-rights (am I missing something ?). Please help
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Anonymous User
Re: final portfolio question
September 06, 2012 02:35PM
Another q Mac, Is it just the functionality that matters or can we make the portfolio pages look a bit fancy aswell to earn more marks? I want mine to look like a proper UNISA registration site
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77779452 Gwen
Re: final portfolio question
September 06, 2012 09:28PM
Hi Euwen-72934603 , according to the tut the cosmetics are not essential for marking, but if you like you can pretty things up
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Anonymous User
Re: final portfolio question
September 07, 2012 07:36AM
Ok 77779452 Gwen thanks, I'm used to front-end Development, this will be a challenge, but we got all the necessary material like the tut letter states,so if I am correct it is 5 php pages in total? the main 1 being index.php
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Mac
Re: final portfolio question
September 07, 2012 08:07AM
Correct.
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Anonymous User
Re: final portfolio question
September 07, 2012 09:49AM
Understood, one last question about the index page, is it index.php for a reason? meaning does it also need some php script, or is it just a menu page which links to the php forms, same as a plain old index.html file with the php extension?
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Mac
Re: final portfolio question
September 07, 2012 04:57PM
We are working with php so a .php extension is natural (editors you code in can colour-code php code if it is saved as .php, so there is a benefit to working with .php) . Servers look for index.html, index.htm, index.php (and even index.php3 for legacy scripts), as well as a host of other index files. So you should have just one of these.

To answer your question, you can have html code only in a .php page, so stick with .php. Just makes it easier.

Maybe this is a bad answer on a Friday just before 5....
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Anonymous User
Re: final portfolio question
September 08, 2012 10:32AM
You answered it perfectly Mac smileys with beer thx, I am clear about the page layouts now
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77698428Sandra
Re: final portfolio question
September 12, 2012 10:08AM
One more silly question, Are we developing a UNISA registration site or is it up to us to chose our own varsity?
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Mac
Re: final portfolio question
September 13, 2012 08:25AM
Your own.
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Anonymous User
Re: final portfolio question
September 13, 2012 08:30AM
it dont matter as long as it functions? is that correct Mac?
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Mac
Re: final portfolio question
September 14, 2012 10:17AM
Yes. In essence, the skills being tested are insert, extract, update and delete. How you do it is a matter of your logic, which is different to mine and others. There is no correct way - more streamlined and better coded ways yes, but I do not mark according to my way or the better way. Logic can, and will, improve as you continue with PHP.
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