First, you will need to request an account on the CS CGI server. Then you should create a directory named cs235 in your public_html directory.
Next, you will create a web page that will be the (temporary) interface to your PDA. This web page should consist of links and forms (and short explanations for any complex functions) that implement the functionality needed by your PDA. The functions and their parameters will depend on your schema and application scenario. Every link and form on this web page should correspond to (and implement) a particular functionality of your PDA. For this assignment, you will only need to implement 8-10 functions. Here is an example of a web page, cs235hw6.html, that has a link to a php script list_tables.php and a form that runs list_attrs.php. Note that the names of the files have an extra .txt extension so the source code can be viewed in your browser. The second php file assumes that you have a table Users with several attributes.
For a quick primer on HTML forms you can go to http://www.pagetutor.com/pagetutor/forms/index.html.
For more information on how to handle form variables passed to php refer to this section of the php manual http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.external.php.
For more information on accessing MySQL from php read http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php.
Your web page which contains all links and forms should be named cs235hw6.html and should be placed in your public_html/cs235 directory. Make sure that this page is readable by a browser.
You will submit your homework by emailing your instructor a link to your PDA web page.