Skip to Content
Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition
book

Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

by Rafe Colburn
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 6m
English
Sams
Content preview from Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

PHP

PHP is one of the oldest embedded scripting languages for Web pages. It consists of a C-like syntax and includes a fairly extensive set of functions that enable you to process forms, gather information from databases, and include conditional statements (like if...else) in your Web pages. For PHP documentation and examples, as well as the actual software distribution, you should see the PHP home page at http://www.php.net.

PHP can run on any UNIX Web server that supports CGI, but you probably want to install it as an Apache module, so if you use the Apache server, you can compile the PHP engine into your Web server for better performance. On other servers, the PHP CGI script works by appending extra path information on the end of the path ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

Shishir Gundavaram
Just Java™ 2

Just Java™ 2

Peter van der Linden
How to Develop a Great Digital Strategy

How to Develop a Great Digital Strategy

Jeanne W. Ross, Cynthia M. Beath, Ina M. Sebastian

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0672324040Purchase book