Cgi How-To: The Definitive Cgi Scripting Problem-Solver

By Selena Sol, Stephen Asbury, Jason Mathews

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is the connection betweeen the Web browser and custom program, allowing a dynamic interaction between the user and the Web page. This guide is written in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157169028X
• ISBN13: 9781571690289
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Waite Group Pr
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

CGI How-To

CGI is the heart of what makes websites and can be useful for other projects. You do not need a book for a simple application, as you can just cut and paste with a fairly educated guess. But the day will come when you will want to know what you are doing and why. More still, when you are confronted with a unique application that cannot just be cut and pasted. This book is very comprehensive and comes with a CD. If you remember what a CD is. There is an example in Perl, and c. is aware that if you go down the Perl route that this animal is proprietary when it comes to outside help. Of course, the book itself has practical examples and monochrome screenshots.

Excellent applications examples

This book starts off with a bang, showing the reader how to transfer client data and decode it at the server. CGI cripts are built up in a step-by-step method easily comprehended by a beginning Perl user (me) and in most cases are translated into the equivalent convolutions of C; the comparison of the two sets of code make the utility of Perl dramatically apparent. "CGI How-To" is an effective practical companion to Larry Wall's "Perl Programming", which is complete but often theoretical in nature.