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
CGI Programming with Perl
β Scribed by Gunther Birznieks, Scott Guelich, Shishir Gundavaram
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 451
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 offers a comprehensive explanation of CGI and related techniques for people who hold on to the dream of providing their own information servers on the Web. This edition has been completely rewritten to use the current techniques available in version 5 of Perl and two popular Perl modules, CGI.pm and CGI_lite.Good scripting is not limited to a knowledge of CGI - you need to know something about other programming tools that organize data and make the output look attractive. Gundavaram starts at the beginning, explaining the value of CGI and how it works, and takes you swiftly into the subtle details of programming. The book offers a comprehensive look at the job of providing information dynamically on the Web.
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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,
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.