Practical

• Get the PHP search engine working for the Works of Shakespeare.
• The user can search for a string in the complete texts of the plays.
• The PHP can search my copy of the files on disk. No need to make your own copy.

For 40%

• Start with the PHP search engine.
• Do everything on that page.

For 100% (MECB)

As well as the above, do the following:

• Sanitise the search string. For example, what if someone enters "; rm (files) ;" and this gets into the "grep" command-line call?
  You can remove all non-alphanumeric chars from the input with preg_replace

• Sanitise the hits. Deal with HTML appearing in the hits.
  We had this problem before with user input with tags in it.

• Link to something better than the Internet Archive.
  Link to the correct page at shakespeare.mit.edu
  Will have to do a translation of the Adelaide address to the MIT address.
  For example, link Macbeth Act 3 to:

  http://shakespeare.mit.edu/macbeth/macbeth.3.1.html

  Note: Actually the above is not ideal since you can only link to scene 1 of the Act, whereas the hit may be in a later scene.
  Maybe you should just link to the play all on one page.
  Or maybe we need to link to a different site. Any better solution welcome.

• Add your own twist. Be creative. 10 percent overall for some Wow factor.
  Possible enhancements are endless. Here are a few ideas, but I certainly do not expect you to do all these!
  1. Collate hits under each filename.
  2. Multiple words search
  3. Summarise hits rather than print all
  4. Multi-page results
  5. Rank files by number of hits
  6. etc.

For 100% (MECT)

As well as all the above, do the following:

• Have a separate form to query if a string is found in Shakespeare or not.
• Base it on the demo of Ajax calling a server program. View the HTML and JS of that page.
• Your form will have a button that, when clicked, makes an Ajax call to search for that string in Shakespeare.
• Instead of displaying the actual hits, your page will just display how many hits exist.
• After the button click, your page displays the number of hits without reloading the page.

Write-up

Submit a document containing:

1. All the PHP code (since it is server-side and I cannot see it).
2. For MECT, all the JS code.
3. Maximum 3 pages showing any code that you are proud of, and explaining what it does.

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