Hour 9. Web Application Architecture
So far, you’ve learned how to write relatively simple CGI scripts, which receive requests and process them. These days, though, most applications are designed to process many different kinds of requests. There are a number of ways you can create these sorts of scripts, and in this lesson, I’ll explain some approaches that you can take. This lesson is a bit more theoretical than many others in the book, but understanding the way that Web applications are designed should enable you to create better applications from the outset. The following topics will be covered in this lesson:
General Web application architecture
Writing scripts that generate forms and process the requests as well
Using declarative programming ...
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