Overview
This unit will teach you how to create dynamic, database-driven web applications using leading open-source technologies: the Apache web server, the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system, and the WordPress content management system.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Prerequisite: DGTL11006 Coding Fundamentals OR MMST11002 Web Design
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Course evaluations and staff observations
Some of the video presentations are too long.
Update the recorded video presentations.
A few video presentations have been updated, but most still need to be redeveloped.
- install and configure the Apache web server, the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system and the WordPress content management system
- build and maintain web sites with the WordPress content management system
- understand fundamental programming principles and write PHP scripts
- understand fundamental database concepts and build databases with MySQL
- access and manipulate the contents of a database using the Structured Query Language (SQL)
- use Apache, PHP and MySQL together to create dynamic, database-driven web applications
Not applicable
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||
2 - Practical Assessment - 30% | ||||||
3 - Practical Assessment - 40% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
5 - Team Work | ||||||
6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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3 - Practical Assessment - 40% |
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
A Study Guide will be provided through the unit web site.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Adobe Dreamweaver or Notepad++ (optional)
- Course Resources Online (accessible via CQUniversity Library)
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Word
- Mozilla Firefox
- Plain text editor such as Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac OS)
- WordPress
- XAMPP (includes Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
s.pace@cqu.edu.au
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1. Getting started with XAMPP
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2. Introduction to WordPress
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3. Using WordPress
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4. PHP basics
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5. PHP statements
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6. Predefined PHP variables and code reuse
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7. Handling forms
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8. Database fundamentals
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9. Structured Query Language (SQL)
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10. Using PHP with MySQL
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11. Search interfaces
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Review
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REQUIRED RESOURCES
You must have access to the following resources for this unit.
UNIT WEB SITE
The unit web site provides essential resources for the unit such as a Study Guide and an online discussion forum. It can be accessed at moodle.cqu.edu.au.
XAMPP
XAMPP is a free software package containing four of the tools that you need for this unit: Apache, MySQL, PHP and phpMyAdmin. Instructions for downloading and installing XAMPP are provided in Study Guide module 1. If you are an off-campus student and you cannot download the relevant installation file because of an inadequate Internet connection or some other problem, please contact the unit coordinator for assistance as soon as you become aware of the problem. The coordinator might be able to burn the file onto a DVD and post it to you by regular mail. Contact details for the unit coordinator can be found in the unit profile and on the unit web site.
WORDPRESS
WordPress is a free blogging platform and content management system that you need for this unit. Instructions for downloading and installing WordPress are provided in Study Guide module 2.
STUDY GUIDE
The online Study Guide will direct you to all of the essential readings and exercises for each module of the unit. The Study Guide is available in Adobe Portable Document format (PDF) from the unit web site.
COURSE RESOURCES ONLINE
Some of the readings for this unit are PDF files that must be downloaded from the CQUniversity Library's Course Resources Online service. The Study Guide will direct you to the Course Resources Online service when necessary.
DISCUSSION FORUM
An online discussion forum will be provided through the unit web site for discussing matters that relate to the unit. The discussion forum is the primary means of support for off-campus students who want assistance with tutorial exercises and assignments. If you seek help with the assignments through the discussion forum, do not post fragments of your code there because that could encourage plagiarism.
WEB BROWSERS
You will need a recent version of Google Chrome (www.google.com/chrome) and Mozilla Firefox (www.mozilla.com) to explore the Web and test the pages that you create. Off-campus students are encouraged to install the latest versions of these browsers. On-campus students may use whichever versions are installed in their local computer lab.
ADOBE ACROBAT READER
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is a free program that lets you view, navigate and print PDF documents like the MMST12009 Study Guide. Adobe Acrobat Reader can be downloaded from the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com.
TEXT EDITOR
You will need a plain text editor such as Notepad or TextEdit for composing PHP, HTML and CSS files. Notepad is distributed with the Microsoft Windows operating system. TextEdit is distributed with the Mac OS X operating system. If you have a copy of Adobe Dreamweaver from the prerequisite unit MMST11002 Web Design you might prefer to edit your files with it rather than Notepad or TextEdit. One of the advantages of using Dreamweaver is that it provides special features such as PHP syntax checking, syntax highlighting and line numbering. Alternatively you might like to use a free open source editor such as Notepad++, which also provides special features for PHP coding. Notepad++ can be downloaded from notepad-plus-plus.org.
1 Practical Assessment
This assignment requires you to create a WordPress web site that satisfies some supplied requirements. Please refer to the unit web site for the assignment details.
Week 4 Friday (31 Mar 2017) 9:00 pm AEST
2 weeks after submission
Please refer to the unit web site for the detailed assessment criteria.
- install and configure the Apache web server, the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system and the WordPress content management system
- build and maintain web sites with the WordPress content management system
- understand fundamental database concepts and build databases with MySQL
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Practical Assessment
Week 8 Friday (5 May 2017) 9:00 pm AEST
2 weeks after submission
Please refer to the unit web site for the detailed assessment criteria.
- install and configure the Apache web server, the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system and the WordPress content management system
- understand fundamental programming principles and write PHP scripts
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
3 Practical Assessment
This assignment requires you to create a MySQL database, a PHP search page and a PHP results page that function together to solve a supplied scripting problem. The web pages must be implemented using PHP, HTML and CSS code. Please refer to the unit web site for the assignment details.
Week 12 Friday (2 June 2017) 9:00 pm AEST
2 weeks after submission
Please refer to the unit web site for the detailed assessment criteria.
- install and configure the Apache web server, the PHP scripting language, the MySQL database system and the WordPress content management system
- understand fundamental programming principles and write PHP scripts
- understand fundamental database concepts and build databases with MySQL
- access and manipulate the contents of a database using the Structured Query Language (SQL)
- use Apache, PHP and MySQL together to create dynamic, database-driven web applications
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.