Programming on the Web today can involve any of several technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its ground as the most mature method--and one of the most powerful ones--of providing dynamic web content. CGI is a generic interface for calling external programs to crunch numbers,
CGI Programming with Perl
β Scribed by Gunther Birznieks, Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram
- Publisher
- O'Reilly
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 451
- Edition
- 2nd ed
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Fairly good content, but hideously organized. The book jumps all over the place and really lacks the coherence I've come to expect from O'Reilly books. I used "Learning Perl" to get pretty good with Perl in two weeks. The book on HTML is terrific as well. A good "Learning CGI" book to lead into this one would be nice I think.
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The World Wide Web is more than a place to put up clever documents and pretty pictures. With a little study and practice, you can offer interactive queries and serve instant information from databases, worked up into colorful graphics. That is what the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) offers.This book
A manual for Web programmers and administrators provides a basic introduction to CGI (Common Gateway Interface) techniques using the Perl programming language and includes information on searching, forms-handling, and other useful applications. Original. (Intermediate).
It provides numerous real-life examples of CGI scripts and the source code for downloading from the book's support site.