Hour 1. Overview of CGI Programming
Do you use the World Wide Web to look up the latest stock quotes? Do you purchase items from online stores? Have you ever used a feedback form on a Web site? If the answer to any of those questions is yes, you’ve not only browsed a Web site, you’ve interacted with a Web application.
It didn’t take long for Web developers to realize that Web sites could provide a lot of functionality above and beyond browsable content. Increasingly, you’ll find that Web applications—which provide truly interactive functionality to your Web sites—are taking the place of static HTML content. If you want to accept and process user input, retrieve and present data from a database, or communicate with applications external to the ...
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