Drag `n' Drop CGI: Enhance Your Web Site Without Programming - Softcover

Weil, Bob; Baron, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201419661 ISBN 13: 9780201419665

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1997

Synopsis

A book/CD-ROM package teaching how to add advanced Perl CGI and JavaScript functions to Web sites, requiring no programming or UNIX experience. Offers step-by-step instructions for configuring and installing full-featured scripts for uses such as secure credit card transactions, a Web site search engine, and a visitor counter. Also explains how to work with other scripts found on the Internet. Includes hot tips, cautions, and amazing factoids. The CD-ROM contains scripts and tools. Written as a "fast-food menu" for those with some experience setting up an Internet, intranet, or extranet Web site. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Authors' Note

Warning! Don't use Windows Notepad with these scripts. Many Windows users have experienced problems using MS-Notepad and MS-Wordpad to edit the text files on this CD-ROM. Instead use the PFE editor (included on the CD-ROM), MS-Word, or other editor that understands UNIX text format.

Everything you need to add advanced Perl CGI and JavaScript functions to your Web site-no programming or UNIX experience required! You'll find the scripts and all the tools you need on the included CD-ROM.

Step-by-step instructions to configure and install a wide range of useful, industrial-strength, full-featured JavaScript and Perl scripts including:

* a complete on-line store-with on-line, secure credit card transactions
* a Web site search engine
* a universal HTML form processing script
* a floating Web site directory panel
* a programmable image display script
* a scrolling browser message
* a visitor counter

The authors walk you through the steps of the script installation process, explaining how and why they work. Reading this book, you will learn not only how to customize and use the scripts, but also how to work with other scripts you find on the Internet. In addition, what you discover about the Internet, HTTP, CGI, and both client-side and server-side scripts will help you enhance your pages more easily.

All the necessary "tricks of the trade" are also presented, such as questions to ask your Internet Service Provider-even the business reasons for and uses of each script. 0201419661B04062001

About the Author:

Bob Weil has written articles for Web Techniques, Dr. Dobb's Journal, 3D Design, and The Net. As Vice President of New Media Services at Nine Dots Corporation, Bob has developed Web sites for a number of clients, including IBM, Hitachi, and the St. Joseph Health System.

Chris Baron is Director of Technology Services for Nine Dots Corporation. He has developed satellite mission control and scientific analysis software for the U.S. Air Force and has written articles for Dr. Dobb's Journal and Web Techniques.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0201419661
• ISBN 13: 9780201419665
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 367