INFO 2480-61: Website Database Implementation
  • Syllabus
  • Welcome Letter
  • Week 1: Software and Setup
    • Folder Structure
    • Git: Getting Started
      • Installing a Git Client
      • Creating a Local Repository
      • Making Changes and Merging them
      • Git Wrap Up
    • Git: Github
      • Creating a New Account
      • Creating a Repo on Github
      • Cloning and Forking
      • Cloning a Repo from Github
      • Pushing Changes to Github.com
      • Github: Adding a Collaborator
    • Command Box
      • Downloading the Software
      • Unzipping and Running the Software for the first time
      • Using CommandBox And Installing the UML-Info package.
      • Setting Up Your Local Server
      • Last Step
    • IDE ( Integrated Development Environment )
      • VS Code
      • IntelliJ
    • Journal
  • Week 2: Review of HTML and CSS
    • Making Point In Time and Working Branches
    • Opening our Project from Week 1 and Starting our BoxLang server
    • HTTP Calls and Requests
    • Making a Static Website Dynamic
    • Creating The Management Index.bxm
    • Creating An HTML Form with Bootstrap
    • Last Steps
  • Week 3: Working Forms and our First Table
    • Data Types
    • Case Types and Naming Conventions
    • Database Tools and Your First DB
      • Installing MySql WorkBench
      • Connecting to your MySQL database
      • Creating Your First Table
    • Working Forms
      • Separation of Concerns
      • Configuring Our Site To Use Our Database
      • Capturing Your Form Data
      • Creating Our Server Side Logic
  • Week 5: SQL and Modelling
    • Our Project And Its Users
    • Introduction to SQL
    • Completing our Articles page.
      • Adapting manageArticles.bxm to display existing articles in the database
      • Completing ManageArticles.bxm to Edit Existing Articles.
      • Making Active Articles Appear On The Public Page
  • Week 6: Managing Books
    • Introduction To Modelling
    • Our Data Models
    • Adapting Our Management Page To Be Multi-Tool
    • Creating The Manage Books Page
    • Adding Search To Our Front Index Page
  • Week 7: Working with Selects, Files, WYSIWYG and more.
    • Adding WYSIWYG Capabilities
    • Adding WYSIWYG to the Manage Books Tool
    • Adding Images To Our Store
    • Creating Our Publisher Select Control
  • Week 9: Joins and Better Searching
    • Displaying Our Publisher
    • Searching By Publisher
    • Creating a Browse by Genre
      • Adapting Our Database
      • Building our Queries: Part 1
      • Assigning Genres to a Book in our AddEdit.bxm page
      • Building our Queries: Part 2
      • Building the GenreNav.bxm
      • Adapting The Details.bxm Page to Search By Genre
  • End of Project Checkllist
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  • Creating our working branch for this week
  1. Week 2: Review of HTML and CSS

Making Point In Time and Working Branches

Goal: By the end of this document you'll have created a "point in time" branch for the start of the project and made a working branch for this week.

Creating a "Point In Time" branch in SourceTree

A "Point in Time" branch is simply a branch in a git repository which is meant to capture and retain what a project looked like at a particular point. There is nothing special or magical about it other than it exists and we can revert our project back to it if we decide to. Chances are we will never access this branch again but it is here as a "safety" net incase we need to revert back to it or reference it.

  1. Open up SourceTree and make sure you have the Main or Master branch of your project selected and in bold in the left hand menu.

  2. Create a new branch called pointInTime/original by clicking on the Branch Icon in the top toolbar and typing in the name

  3. Double click on Main in the left menu to go back to the main branch.

Creating our working branch for this week

  1. In SourceTree, make sure that your Main or Master branch is in bold in the left menu

  2. Create a new branch called week2 by clicking on the Branch icon in the top toolbar and typing in the name.

  3. Leave that branch checked out while we do our work for this week.

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