Calendar SystemDale Wassum

August 4, 2004

CPSC 463 :: Summer II 2004 :: Dr. Pargas

Outline Introduction Problem Statement Approach Taken Technology Used Demonstration Results Q&A

Introduction CPSC 463: Online Systems Projects Technology

Microsoft IIS – hogwarts Visual Studio .NET Virtual PC

Problem Statement Calendar System

Online website Post event announcements Highly accessible Secure Notifications/Reminders

Calendar System Event announcements

Who When What

Calendar System Accessible from anywhere

Local users Remote (mobile) users

Calendar System Notifications/Reminders

SMS Email

Calendar System Security

DCIT Authentication PHP Sessions

Approach TakenPeople Server

(Apache/PHP)Hogwarts Server

(Microsoft IIS)

InternetInternet

SOAP SOAP

WMLClient

SQLHTMLClient

Technology Used – ASP.NET Web Service

http://hogwarts.cs.clemson.edu/dwassum/calendar/calendar.asmx

SOAP – Simple Objects Access Protocol Request/Response XML

Technology Used – SQL Server Database Tables

Events Title Posted by Begin Date End Date Details

Technology Used – SQL Server Database Tables

Users Username First name Last name Email address Mobile phone number Mobile service provider

Technology Used – PHP Hypertext preprocessor Server-side scripts Runs on people.clemson.edu

Technology Used – PHP Browser Detection

PHP script analyzes client agent Generates HTML or WML code based on browser

SOAP NuSoap – web services toolkit Request/response

Session variables Keeps track of user’s login session

Demonstration http://www.clemson.edu/~dwassum/463/login.php http://hogwarts.cs.clemson.edu/dwassum/calendar/calendar.asmx

Results PHP and Nusoap combination is a good

solution for communication with a web service.

Some SOAP requests/responses are tricky to get working properly.

PEAR::SOAP is another possible solution More at

http://www.cs.clemson.edu/~dwassum/463

Future Work Improve interface Get notifications fully implemented Additional features

User groups More tables and fields Advanced queries Data integrity constraints Administration interface

Fibertech Corporation

Acknowledgements Josh Austin – authentication Rashmy – PHP Adam Drewes – SOAP Rob Whitten – messaging Dr. Pargas – cool instructor

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