CGI Programming with Visual Basic 5

By Ofer Laor

This volume covers Common Gateway Interface application programing using Visual Basic 5. The CD-ROM contains source code for Web applications, a generic search engine and secured user entry function. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0079136885
• ISBN13: 9780079136886
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Computing McGraw-Hill
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.8" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Greatest CGI Programming Book with Visual Basic out there.

CGI Programming with Visual Basic 5 is an extensive book that teaches step by step how to create robust applications for the Internet. It contains information on creating search engines, counters, shopping bags, the use of cookies and parameters, and information on debugging and using client side scripting inside your applications. I have really enjoyed this book and personally recommend it to any developer that is interested in developing robust applications for the Internet.

A good hands on book.

The book contains useful information and sample code. It is structured as a tutorial, so that most examples build on each other to create a complete application. Overall, the book is a definite must have if you are trying your hand at CGI for the first time and want to implement a CGI application quickly. Things that could be better: The samples have little documentation other than the high level description of the functionality, so it may take some time to go through the sample code and fully understand how it works. Some subjects are not as in-depth as I expected, such as E-mail and credit card processing.