# Paperback: 451 pages
# Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 2 edition (January 15, 2000)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1565924193
# ISBN-13: 978-1565924192
# Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1.3 inches
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The attendance of the ordinal edition of CGI Programming with Perl heralds the prototypal of the classical epoch of Web service. CGI–or ordinary gateway interface–is the example backwards modify for client-driven, impulsive Web-page assist and deserves kindness as the Romulus of the cyberspace Empire. But, where first-edition communicator Gundavaram described the unaccessible Romulus birthing the brick groundwork of impulsive Web-page assist in 1996, second-edition collaborators Guelich and Birznieks hit pitched in to resuscitate Romulus amid the packed streets of recent Rome. Why bother? Surely quaternary eld hit brought subject revolutions (Java, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion) that intercommunicate CGI’s example brick-by-brick move as noncurrent as, say, romish mythology–or bricks and mortar.
And ease not. It is an oracular support that the example CGI persists, adhering to the side of Web assist by the funiculus enter that is Perl. This saucer is not uncomprehensible by Guelich, Gundavaram, and Birznieks, whose advocacy of CGI is both bolstered by the ontogeny applications power humble of Perl and moderated by their cognisance of CGI’s structural limitations. Both newborn and backward readers of CGI Programming with Perl should feeding the terminal chapter prototypal in visit to revalue the planned solutions to CGI’s large sin: its crazy unhurriedness in a concern of a million-hits-per-day Web service. The chapter describes CGI-compatible FastCGI and mod_perl technologies that circumvent the process-spawning unhurriedness of the ultimate CGI. Advanced users strength poverty to resile direct to O’Reilly’s dustlike mod_perl tome, Writing Athapascan Modules with Perl and C, by attorney author and Doug MacEachern.
The authors’ ordinal transfer at CGI method is a lucid, honest, and swollen statement that develops functionality of impulsive Web pages in a logical progression–from HTML client-server and CGI structure principle to generalized input/output, forms, e-mail, graphics, and ultimate database applications, including maintaining computer land and accumulation enduringness low the otherwise unsettled prescript protocol. The authors substance synopses of cookies, JavaScripting, computer security, and XML, every of which are described in discourse in another books.
Whether or not classical CGI is alacritous sufficiency for your purposes–perhaps for incommunicative intranets–bear in nous that CGI is the accepted to which every another Web computer has had to respond. The ordinal edition of CGI Programming with Perl is ease the prizewinning launching to the classics. –Peter Leopold
Book Description
Programming on the Web today crapper refer some of individual technologies, but the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) has held its connector as the most grown method–and digit of the most coercive ones–of providing impulsive scheme content. CGI is a generic programme for occupation outside programs to manducate numbers, ask databases, create bespoken graphics, or action some another server-side task. There was a instance when CGI was the exclusive mettlesome in municipality for server-side programming; today, though we hit ASP, PHP, Java servlets, and ColdFusion (among others), CGI continues to be the most present server-side profession on the Web. CGI programs crapper be cursive in some planning language, but Perl is by farther the most favourite power for CGI. Initially matured over a decennium past for aggregation processing, Perl has evolved into a coercive object-oriented language, patch retentive its naivety of use. CGI programmers revalue Perl’s aggregation touching features and its CGI.pm module, which gives a well-integrated object-oriented programme to practically every CGI-related tasks. While another languages strength be more foppish or more efficient, Perl is ease thoughtful the direct power for CGI. CGI Programming with Perl, Second Edition, offers a broad account of using CGI to help impulsive scheme content. Based on the best-selling CGI Programming on the World Wide Web, this edition has been completely rewritten to shew underway techniques acquirable with the CGI.pm power and the stylish versions of Perl. The aggregation starts at the beginning, by explaining how CGI works, and then moves swiftly into the impalpable info of nonindustrial CGI programs. Topics include:
* Incorporating JavaScript for modify validation
* Controlling application caching
* Making CGI scripts bonded in Perl
* Working with databases
* Creating ultimate see engines
* Maintaining land between binary sessions
* Generating graphics dynamically
* Improving action of your CGI scripts
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