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

Review

Building dynamic Web sites often means learning about CGI--the Common Gateway Interface that specifies how server-based programs interact with a Web server. CGI Programming Unleashed shows how to use CGI for a variety of common tasks such as processing forms, polling users, hosting discussions, and implementing "shopping carts." The book's strength is its breadth, not depth--there are plenty of code samples, but they're fairly dense and you'll be left to do much of the interpretation yourself. Novice programmers may find the going tough, but experienced ones who want to learn how to use CGI quickly will be right at home.

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