CS 101 Assignment 2

CS 101 Web Construction, Fall 2011, Instructor: Jeffrey Horn ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment 5 "FORMS and Server-side Scripts"
- Handed out: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- Due: Friday, October 28, 2011
- Goals:
  - Design and implement a web form, as an interface to an existing server-based script (program).
  - Learn to use several different versions of the <input> form element (i.e., text, submit, hidden, password, all of which are values for <input>'s "type" attribute).
  - Learn to be the interface between user and (script) programmer
- Details:
  1. Create a web page (.html file) containing a <form> that does allows the web user to play the "secret number" game. The user must fill out your form so that the server-side script will send an email to you, using a "hidden" input for the "recipient" field.)
  2. The CS 101 A5 script is at http://cs.nmu.edu/~jeffhorn/cgi-bin/A5.cgi Have your form's action attribute point to this script, and use "POST" for the value of the method attribute.
  3. Your form should ask the user for some to guess the secret number (integer), 1-1000.
  4. To run the CS101 A5 script, your web page will need to send these named data fields to the server-side script:
    1. guess: A text string with a number in it. This will be the users guess as to the "Mystery Number"!
    2. recipient: A real email address (e.g., "jeffhorn@cs.nmu.edu"). This should be hidden.
  5. Note that the names above are case-sensitive.
  6. Put your page on the web, but use a "cryptic" (i.e., non-obvious) URL, so as to discourage copying by other students!
  7. When your form page is working, send me the URL by email. Include your best guess of the mystery number! Also, don't forget to put "CS 101 A5" at the beginning of the SUBJECT line of your email message! EXTRA CREDIT CHALLENGE: Instead of sending me an email directly, try to get the server-side script to send me an email with your URL for A5, and your name (in the body of the email message). Hint: use named data fields!