If you're into Web programming, you've no doubt heard of how CGI scripts
can bring life to lackluster
home pages. What you may not know is that you don't even have to write
your own scripts from
scratch; much of CGI development involves going to the archives of
pre-written CGI scripts and
customizing them.
Where do you find those scripts and what must you do to use them in your
system? That's what you'll
discover in Instant Web Scripts with CGI. This book/CD-ROM set is packed
with plenty of scripts
as well as guidelines for de-archiving them, setting the appropriate
permissions, and other housekeeping
you must do to get them to work on just about any Web-server environment
that allows CGI scripts to
run.
Instant Web Scripts with CGI covers topics like:
- solving common problems in configuring CGI scripts, like server
errors and output errors
- using scripts for your intranet--including BBSs, groupware
calendars, and document sharing
- using libraries of Perl routines that can do nearly everything you'd
want to do with CGI
- sending out e-mail with CGI
- using Perl programs to grab HTML documents and manipulate them
before displaying them
- using password authentication algorithms with all the security
capabilities you'll need
- performing database searches and database management
- doing keyword searches that give your people a quick, up-to-date
means of finding Web pages
- creating scripts that process many kinds of HTML forms, no matter
how different they are
Of course, as soon as you get some scripts downloaded and configured to
run on your intranet or the
Internet, your users (or your boss) will be clamoring for
customization--better graphics, more features,
and the like. That's where those Perl libraries will come in handy.
Instant Web Scripts with CGI
explains how these libraries work internally and how to use them inside
your own programs.
Why wait any longer to build Web sites with greater ease and
functionality? For a wealth of scripts and
the know-how to use them, get yourself a copy of Instant Web Scripts
with CGI.
About the Authors
Selena Sol, a.k.a. Eric Tachibana, is the online services coordinator
for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation in Washington, D.C.
Gunther Birkznieks is a systems administrator for ROW Sciences/National
Institutes of Health.
