August 2000
Beginner
456 pages
9h 24m
English
The previous hour presented code that reads a database of available books and displays a list of purchased books. This code assumes that the data files are in the same directory as the HTML file that's being executed. In the real world of Web commerce, however, computers create and exchange files in what's known as the client-server model. The XML data files reside on the server side, which means that the code to search them also has to run on the server.
In this hour, you'll learn the following:
The basics of the client-server model of data transfer on the World Wide Web
How to send data from the client to the server using the Querystring environment variable
How to obtain and ...
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