ad a great experience at Lockheed Martin. Over my 5 months here, I have learned a lot about the organization, used many of its custom built applications to support my work, and made connections with numerous […]

It has been very useful to have an internship while in my last semester at Temple. My senior classes have given me less functional and more managerial lessons. The functional skills I have learned, data […]

There are a handful of important business/technical skills that are important, and a lot of them revolve around communication. I have learned to be more succinct in emails, and to arrive at both phone and […]

I have worked at a variety of other corporate offices in my past, so I had a general sense of how to navigate through my first few weeks. However, there were a few things that are unique to the Lockheed Martin […]

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I am the spring 2012 MIS co-op for Lockheed Martin. I am working with the Enterprise Business Services team as a research assistant. Lockheed Martin created my role in conjunction with Temple […]

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$OnError =”Please refresh the webpage″
Echo htmlentities(OnError);

htmlentities function protects the website from harmful attacks by converting characters into HTML entities.

For example:

PHP’s MySQL Extension- Pros- uses a procedural interface which means that each action is an individual function. Cons- doesn’t support prepared statements, so it is susceptible to SQL injection. Example: mysql_connect() accepts the host, username, and a password for a MySQL connection. PHP’s MySQLi Extension- Pros- Supports object-oriented and…[Read more]

1. What are the SQL commands of the Data Definition Language (DDL) and Data Manipulation Language (DML)?

Data Definition Language (DDL)- ALTER, ANALYZE, ASSOCIATE STATISTICS, AUDIT, COMMENT, CREATE, DISASSOCIATE STATISTICS, DROP, FLASHBACK, GRANT, NOAUDIT, PURGE, RENAME, REVOKE, TRUNCATE
UNDROP

Data Manipulation Language (DML)- CALL,…[Read more]

Examples:

Password cookie – A vistor inputs a password that is then stored in a cookie. Next time the visitor arrives at your page, the password is retrieved from the cookie.

$_Session – a global array that stores information from when a visitors logs into a site until they leave.

Both Cookies and Sessions store data across pages on a website. Cookies can be stored for a long periods of time from months to years. Cookies are stored on the client side and are therefore compatiable with a cluster of web servers, because multiple servers can access the stored information from the clients server. Web [...]

2. $_SERVER
Contains the fully qualified name of the current server as defined by the Domain Name System.

CGI-
$_SERVER
The host name, DNS alias, or IP address of the server hosting the current script.

2.Provide an example on how to add more functionality to a PHP function. Parameters add more functionality to a function. Parameters are similiar to variables; they are specified after the function inside the parentheses. Example: function writeName($fname) { echo $fname . ” Refsnes.”; } This parameter assigns Refsnes as the return value for the…[Read more]

1. Describe the following control structures: if – Defines the code between curly braces that is to be executed only if a condition is met. else – Used with if; provides an alternative value to output if the condition isn’t met. elseif/else if – Statement between the if and else blocks; executes only if the [...]

2.What are differences between the echo() statement and the print() statement?

Both are output statements, however, print returns a value and requires parenthesis. Echo simply outputs exacts what is written in the scripting, it doens’t return anything. Therefore, echo is faster than print and should be usedfor static values that do not…[Read more]

Q3. Provide a definition for variables and datatypes: Variables- an identifier for a value stored in a system’s memory as a keyword or a phrase. Variables used in programs enable quick changes to the program’s output by allowing the designer to use variables interchangeable without altering the program. Datatype- A classification for variables…[Read more]

Q3. PHP is a scripting language that can be run by itself on any computer. To use PHP on a web site, Apache (a free web server) must be installed. Together, these components create a local development environment to test PHP scripts. MySQL is a relational database that efficiently stores data for the website. With [...]