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M275, Web Development using PHP and MySQL Fall offer 2012 -2013

Assignment Booklet Cut-off date Plagiarism Warning: As per AOU rules and regulations, all students are required to submit their own TMA work and avoid plagiarism. The AOU has implemented sophisticated techniques for plagiarism detection. You must provide all references in case you use and quote another person's work in your TMA. You will be penalized for any act of plagiarism as per the AOU's rules and regulations. Declaration of No Plagiarism by Student (to be signed and submitted by student with TMA work): December 5 , 2012

I hereby declare that this submitted TMA work is a result of my own efforts and I have not plagiarized any other person's work. I have provided all references of information that I have used and quoted in my TMA work. Name of Student:……………………………….. Signature:…………………………………………... Date:……………………………………………………
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This assignment should be submitted electronically. You should write your solutions to the questions in a single Word document, which is named using your short ID (6 digits), your full name, the course code and the TMA. Your file name should look like as follows: M275-TMA-Fall-2012-YourBranchName-YourID-YourFullName.doc

Submit your document to your tutor on or preferably before the cut-off date shown above. This TMA assesses your work of the course covering the material from block one unit one to block four unit three of M275.. The total marks for each question are shown at the beginning of each question. You are requested to provide answers on ALL the questions. The marks allocation is as follows: Question Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Allocated marks 10 20 15 25 30

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Question 1 [10 Marks] Some of PHP’s main competitors are Perl, Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Java Server pages (JSP), and Allaire ColdFusion. a- In comparison to these products, PHP has many strengths, mention five of these strength points with a brief