- Client-tier resources
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HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript resources.
- Middle-tier resources
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Web server, web technology, and PHP resources. In particular, we include pointers to third-party PHP development tools, an introduction to the PHP libraries, and open source projects.
- Database-tier resources
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Database theory, SQL, and DBMS-specific resources.
- Security and cryptography resources
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Software installation resources are listed at the end of Appendix A.
Client Tier Resources
More information on HTML, the related topic of CSS, JavaScript, and directions in the standards that web browsers support can be found in the following resources:
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The W3C web site
http://www.w3.org
has links to many of the web standards, including HTML 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
), Cascading Style Sheets, XML, and XHTML. The HTML validator-which was used to validate all examples in this tutorial-can be found athttp://validator.w3.org
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The HTML Writer's Guild (HWG) is an organization that provides many useful resources to web developers, including links to lists of browser features and HTML validators. Trial membership is free for the first year. The HWG web site is
http://www.hwg.org
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The original cookie specification was developed by Netscape and can be found at
http://www.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html
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XHTML 1.0 Recommendations can be found from the W3C site at
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/
.