Re: attention Robert Craig
Matt,
Sorry about the late late answer, but I've been rather offline.
----- Original Message -----
From: Darth Maul, aka Matt <Uglyfish87 at HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 8:07 PM
Subject: attention Robert Craig
> Hi,
> I was wondering, how do you write CGI scripts and what did you write
them
> in? How did you implement it?
>
> Thx in advance for answering a dumb question,
> - Matt
You can write CGI in any language able to interact with a browser and a
HTTP-able net (Internet, intranet, even a "local" net -usually port 1234- in
your own system). You do this just by "printing" your HTML code, and
"posting" your forms. Euphoria can do this, and so can Perl (commonly used,
mostly on Unix/Apache environments), Python, etc. Almost any language can.
As for tutorials and examples, they abound on the net. Try searching for
"cgi tutorial", "cgi script" and the like. I would recommend you the
following:
"CGI 101" by Jacqueline Hamilton, an e-book at www.cgi101.com. A good 200KB
pdf (Acrobat Reader or equivalent needed) you can download. Includes the
first six chapters of the book (the rest ain't free, she's gotta make a
living too, dammit), but those six cover all the basics. Centered on Perl
and Unix, but quite easy to follow even if you don't know the first thing
about them (Perl is like Eu, but not as pretty).
"CGI Made Really Easy" by James Marshall, at www.jmarshall.com. Just a
series of online docs you can browse or download. For dummies (no offence
intended, I was one once; everybody was). Look at the footnotes.
The NCSA docs at http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/. A bit simple and stuffy,
but worth a look.
The Selena Sol tutorial at http://www.extropia.com/tutorials/sql/, if you
want a glimpse at database sql queries thru cgi. Uses Perl, Windows and
Access. Queer.
And of course the official W3 specs (you'll drown in info and links), at
http://www.w3.org/CGI/.
Most big IT sites have lots of useful info, be it tutorials, sample scripts
and/or links. Try Webdeveloper at http://www.webdeveloper.com/ or
http://wdvl.com/; Freeware Home at www.twocom.com/freeware/; Ziff-Davis's
ZDNet at www.zdnet.com and ZDNet's Softseek at http://www.softseek.com/
(look for Programming -> Tutorials and Reference); Earthweb at
www.earthweb.com (try their TechCrawler); the very complete if somewhat
cryptic books at Netscape's DevEdge (http://developer.netscape.com/), and so
on.
You may also want to browse the beautiful W3Schools site at
www.w3schools.com, which include (a rare find indeed) several online working
excercises you can modify and see how they perform, all the while generating
your very own code that you can copy and take the rest of the afternoon off.
And every table and list of codes, colors, MIME types, HTTP status and
similar you may ever want (and you will), you can find at the December HTML
Station, http://www.december.com/html.
Don't worry, there's tons of stuff all around. Would you believe the
Virtualville Public Library? Go to
http://www.virtualville.com/library/cgi.html.
Though, be warned. By the time you have it down pat, and up and running (up
and down? inside out? whatever), you'll want to learn XML. And SVG. Sorry,
you asked for it.
I really must bring up a page with all those links. Cheers.
Gerardo.
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