Hour 17. Content Management with CGI

CGI is generally associated with Web applications. The user interacts with the application using HTML forms, and the CGI application processes the data the user enters and produces the requested results. However, CGI is also widely used for content management. By building a content management system, you can separate your content and its presentation, and save yourself the trouble of maintaining thousands of HTML documents.

In this hour, you’ll learn

  • How content publishing systems are used

  • Which types of content publishing systems you can create

  • How to build a content publishing system

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