Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

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For the advanced and amateur developer, this book examines Perl, the language for creating CGI scripts that let you add forms, guest books, counters, and surveys to your Web site. It shows how to deal with existing scripts and teaches Mac and Window users UNIX to run their scripts on UNIX servers.

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Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web by Elizabeth Castro

Perl is by far the most popular programming language for creating scripts that add powerful interactive features to Web pages. Included on most UNIX platforms and available free of charge for Windows and Macintosh, Perl lets you place forms on your Web site that collect and process user input such as product orders and comments, enables visitors to conduct keyword searches, and lets you integrate a database into your site, among many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide gets you to the heart of Perl scripting with CGI. Even first-time programmers will be able to create interactive Web pages and, more importantly, use their newfound familiarity with Perl to understand and customize the multitude of scripts that already exist on the Web. Following on the huge success of Elizabeth Castro's top-selling HTML 4: Visual QuickStart Guide ---the book on HTML--her Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is sure to become the choice for learning Perl and CGI.

Elizabeth Castro began working with the Macintosh in a software development and distribution company called CTA, in Barcelona, Spain. Her first project was the translation of an OCR program into English, which was quickly followed by the translation of Aldus PageMaker (version 3!) into Spanish. Castro's department, Publications, was soon translating other programs from Aldus, as well as software from Agfa, Farallon and the Wheels for the Mind magazine for Apple Computer Spain.

In 1990, Castro founded Pagina Uno together with Oriol Carbo. One of Pagina Uno's first projects was the translation of The Macintosh Bible, 3rd edition, into Spanish: La Biblia del Macintosh. It was a great success, thanks to the unerring tone of Arthur Naiman combined with the brilliant translation of Jose Rafael Garcia Bermejo (affectionately known as Coti) and Oriol Carbo, among others. Pagina Uno published several more Peachpit books about the Macintosh in Spanish and also began to localize Adobe products like Photoshop, Premiere and Dimensions into Spanish.

In 1993, Castro left Pagina Uno (and her beloved Barcelona) and returned to the US to edit the fifth edition of the Mac Bible.

SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780201353587
ISBN 10 020135358X
Title Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web
Author Elizabeth Castro
Series Visual Quickstart Guides
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pearson Education Limited
Year published 1998-12-02
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.