Developing dynamic web applications: "Exam scheduler"

The paper presents and analyzes the methodology of the development of dynamic web applications, illustrated by the example of the web application for exam scheduling and managing, which has been developed for the use at the University of Rijeka, Department of Informatics. The main drawback of the previous application regarded the need for "manual" search for free exam terms, because it did not contain the possibility of automatic insight into the taken (already inserted) exam terms. The new application for the thorough evidence of exam terms has been created by using the script languages PHP and JavaScript, together with the relational database system MySQL and the language HTML, as the basic means for defining the structure of web pages. In the first part of the paper we describe the methodology of the development of web applications, while in the rest of the paper we illustrate the use of this methodology on the example of the development of the dynamic web application “Exam scheduler”.