February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
826 pages
63h 42m
English
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Server-Side Programming
Web pages and sites have gotten much more interactive since the early days of simple HTML document sharing. Now web sites serve as portals of two-way information sharing, e-commerce, search engines, and dynamically generated content. This functionality relies on programs and scripts that are processed on the server. There are a number of options for server-side programming , of which CGI, ASP, PHP, and Java servlets/JSP are the most common.