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Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

by Rafe Colburn
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
13h 6m
English
Sams
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Workshop

The quiz questions are designed to strengthen the knowledge you gain each hour. The exercises help you build on that knowledge by providing you with the opportunity to apply it to real problems.

Quiz

1: Why was it a questionable decision to use HTML-style tags as delimiters for the content files in the example?
2: On what types of sites is caching HTML documents not a good idea?

Exercises

1: Create a new template and content file format and modify the sample programs to use them.

Quiz Answers

A1: It was questionable to use XML in our story files because the tags can conflict with the HTML tags inside the content.
A2: Sites that serve up dynamic content for every user are bad candidates for caching.
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