CGI Programming Unleashed

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Reviews
Amazon.com
What did you do with your spare time in high school? While you might have been playing football or volunteering down at the retirement home, Dan Berlin, a high-school senior in New Jersey, was busy leading a group of CGI experts in the creation of CGI Programming Unleashed. The guide is a typical encyclopedic treatment of the CGI specification and the things you can do with it.

CGI Programming Unleashed opens with a solid explanation of the concepts that underlie CGI--including a complete explanation of all environment variables and the most popular libraries--and then moves on to offer a series of task-oriented chapters. Each of these chapters covers a single common application of CGI, such as database query systems, image maps, discussion forums, shopping carts, and hit counters. The application-oriented chapters include complete Perl code listings. The code also appears on the companion CD-ROM, so you can take it from there and have your server running useful CGI programs quite speedily.

The book wraps up with coverage of Java, JavaScript, NSAPI, ISAPI, and ActiveX. Weirdly, the guide lumps Java and JavaScript into one chapter and gives them only cursory treatment, but provides more in-depth coverage of ActiveX in two chapters. Overall, this is a fine choice for the programmer (or the Web master who can program a little) who just wants to get something to work. The application-oriented approach is a real help.

Book Description
CGI Programming Unleashed is the comprehensive solutions package that offers all the reference material that an advanced to expert user needs. With CGI Programming Unleashed, you will make your Web site an interactive showcase on the Internet; understand the fundamentals of CGI and Perl; learn to write secure CGI applications; set up email feedback forms and database queries; learn what you can do with server side includes; add imagemaps and forms to Web pages; build working programs with step-by-step guidance; add Web animation with server push and client pull; and customize existing programs from CGI libraries.

Programmers will create end-user Internet applications that run programs on a Web server
Teaches CGI and HTML integration
CD-ROM contains source code from the book and powerful utilities

Synopsis
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) allows programmers to create end-user Internet applications that run programs on a Web Server. This book gives the reader a comprehensive reference to what CGI is, what can be done with it, and how to incorporate it into their applications.

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