courses.php

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
  <title>FAS Courses</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="site.css" type="text/css"/>
 </head>
 <body>
<h1>Faculty of Arts &amp; Sciences</h1>
<p><a href="departments.php">Return to Department List</a></p>
<h2>Department <?php echo $_GET[department_code] ?></h2>
<?php
// Connecting, selecting database
$link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'class', 'dbpasswd')
     or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
     mysql_select_db('coursecatalog') or die('Could not select database');

$dept_code = $_GET['department_code'];

// Performing SQL query
$query = 'SELECT course_group_long, num_int, num_char, term, title, description, faculty_text';
$query .= ' from courses where department_code = ';
$query .= "'".mysql_escape_string($dept_code)."'";
$query .= ' order by course_group_long, num_int, num_char, title';

$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
// Printing results in HTML
     echo "<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>\n";
$i = 0;
     while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
       $class = $i++ % 2 ? 'evenrow' : 'oddrow' ;
       echo "\t<tr class='$class'>\n";
       echo "<td class='abbrev'>$row[course_group_long] $row[num_int] $row[num_char]</td>";
       echo "<td class='long'><strong>$row[title]</strong><br/>$row[faculty_text]";
       echo "<p class='description'>$row[description]</p></td>";
       echo "\t</tr>\n";
     }
echo "</table>\n";

// Free resultset
mysql_free_result($result);

// Closing connection
mysql_close($link);
?> 

</body>
</html>

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