Write a PHP program that emails a light bulb joke. Here is the form:

Figure 1. Form

When the user clicks the button, some PHP sends an email somewhere, and then shows this:

Figure 2. Output

Only use your own email address! Don’t spam.

You can try my version (it doesn’t actually send email, just shows the output). You can download the files.

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Create an application to save jokes to a file. The main menu is like this:

Figure 1. Main page

Click “See joke list” and you see the jokes file:

Figure 2. Show jokes

The user can also type a new joke into the main page:

Figure 3. Adding a joke

Clicking the button will add the joke to the file, and show a confirmation page:

Figure 4. Joke added

You can try my solution, though it doesn’t actually save new jokes. You can also download the files.

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Write a PHP application that lets you collect quotes you like. It should let you:

• See quotes you have collected.

• Write quotes to a file.

You can try the application.

The page that shows the quotes should say “No quotes yet” if there are none. Otherwise, it should show the quotes.

Separate quotes with <hr> tags.

save-quotes.php is the file that saves a new quote. It should:

• Use stripslashes() to remove PHP’s “helpful” backslashes.

• Replace new lines with <br> tags.

These two lines will help:

$quote = stripslashes($_POST['quote']);
$quote = str_replace("\n", '<br>', $quote);

You can download a zip file that has everything except two PHP files: see-quotes.php and save-quotes.php.

You can also download my solution, but do the exercise yourself first!

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A zoo has a ticket booth. Visitors come up to the booth, and order tickets for adult and children (e.g., 1 adult and two children). The booth attendant collects the entry fee, and prints out the tickets.

Write a PHP application for the attendant. It starts out like this:

Figure 1. Empty form

Notice that the focus is in the first input field.

You can download the background image. It’s from a design on OSWD, by GGGDesign.

The attendant enter the numbers of adults and children, and clicks the Total button. The page shows the total, and a Print button:

Figure 2. Form with data

When the attendant clicks the Print button, three things happen.

• A small printer prints the tickets (OK, just pretend this happens).

• A record of the transaction is appended to a log file.

• The blank form (Figure 1) is shown again.

Clicking on the “Show log” link shows the transaction log:

Figure 3. Log

Each log entry has the date and time, as well as the number of tickets ordered. This code might be useful:

date('l, F jS Y, h:i:s A')

You can try the application (although I have disabled the logging, to keep the file size down).

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