Teach Yourself CGI Programming in a Week

by Rafe Colburn

Developing simple Web pages is relatively easy, but if you want Web site visitors to look things up in your catalog, sign your Web site guest book, or fill out survey forms, HTML alone is not enough.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575213818
• ISBN13: 9781575213811
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

I was new to CGI and found this book

I went out and bought this book becuase I saw it and glansed at it and I liked what I saw. This book will take you threw all the basics in CGI. By the end of the seven days, I was programming all these awsome things in perl. Right now, just from the knowledge I aquired from this book I was able to create my own internet advertising company using over 10,000 lines of pure Perl code. I feel this book will get you on your feet and get you doing the majority of the things you want to get done. I was a bit skeptacle about the whole "Sams" books and how everybody says they are crap and they have very bad editing and stuff. Well I went through this book, and there are a few misprints, but the book is still a very good and you will not be disappointed if you get this one, although if you want to get truly serious in CGI you will need to get a reference book in Perl or whatever language, but this will get you on your way making amazing and great usefull CGI programs. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 stars was because I felt this book would have been better if they made it a "Sams teach yourself CGI Programming in 21 days" instead of a shorter 7 day course. That way they could have taken many subjects into more depth, but besides that, it covers a lot (even SQL). I have read reviews on other sams books and many people say that sams is very bad. Well some were true, but this book from Sams is a great book and a must have.

Great book!

Although I do not have any Perl experience, I found this book just great to get understanding about CGI concepts and environment. I did not expect such a good book from SAMS. Must have!

A best book for CGI beginner

I have bought 5 CGI books, only this one does teach me something from the beginning. By reading through the first chapter, I fully understand the structure of a site, what is the document root, why index page in the /usr/local/http/htdocs directory is automaticlly loaded if www.xxxx.com is used, as well as why cgi-bin is treated as in the same directory under the document root as your html document eventhough the cgi-bin is one level higher than htdocs, etc, ... These are all the questions I have in my mind since I started to learn CGI, this book enlightened me starting in the first chapter! (Certainly not only one chapter can do all). No other books take a approach as this one to teach you from the very beginning, which is very crucial to any one who is new to CGI I believe. This is a book for any one who wants to learn CGI from the very beginning. But I think if you have some html and unix knowledge, it would be much easier for you to quickly learn CGI by reading this book. I have one year html experience and know some basic unix and perl, I feel very comfortable reading through this book and finished with it just in a week. If you are looking for some advanced CGI, maybe O'Reilly's "Programming in CGI" will do much better for you.

Answers any question you can think of concerning CGI prog.

I work for a software company writing CGI programs in Perl for their Intranet site. Of about 10 books I have concerning CGI, this is the one that always answers my question.

Perfect for learning CGI scripts

Ideal for both beginner and advanced programmer, Teach Yourself CGI Programming in a Week shows you how to create dynamic websites using CGI. No longer do you web pages need to be static - now you can create interactive pages that breathe life into a site. This fast paced book will get you up to speed with CGI programming, teaching you both the theory and practical techniques you need to write your own CGI applications and scripts.Each chapter introduces a new topic, such as forms, scripts, server-side-includes (SSI), graphics, databases and security. As you progress from chapter to chapter, you'll be amazed at just how easy CGI programming can be. The examples in the book are clearly explained, and help demonstrate the practical applications of CGI programming. The book includes examples in Perl 5, and C, so whether you're a C or a PERL programmer, this book will be of benefit. Examples range from small pieces of code to large applications. The examples are of real ! ! practical use for webmaster such as counters, guestbooks, email gateways and WWW forms that access and record information in a database. There's even source code for a flat-file database, for those webmasters who don't have an existing database system installed on their site.Teach Yourself CGI Programming in a Week offers programmers and webmasters the opportunity to master CGI applications in a very short period of time, and to effectively deploy "real-world" CGI applications on their website. The techniques are described in plain, simple language, and are backed up by example code. If you're looking for an easily accessible book, and want to put CGI programming to use quickly, this book is for you!