[thelist] Simple CGI Languages
Boris Mann
boris at bmannconsulting.com
Mon Sep 29 21:16:58 CDT 2003
This is fun! Let's see if we can list all the web application
languages...I think we're almost there...
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 03:28 PM, Syed Zeeshan Haider wrote:
> Which language (for writing CGI scripts) is the easiest to learn?
PHP of course! http://www.php.net
This might prove helpful in getting Apache and PHP installed under
Windows:
http://www.shahidhussain.com/weblog/000019.html
And here's your first PHP program (copy and paste into a text file,
upload or drop into directory on webserver):
<?php
// this tag starts any PHP code
// the two slashes are for single-line comments
/* Or you can do multi-line
like this */
// your browser will display everything in quotation marks
print "Hello World!";
// this tag ends PHP code
?>
BTW -- CGI stands for "common gateway interface". Before things like
Apache modules and other such fancy stuff, scripts could pretty much
only interact with a web server through these types of interfaces.
Today, it might be more appropriate to talk about "web application
languages" or "web scripting languages".
Cheers,
--
Boris Mann
Senior Consultant
Phenomenal Solutions, Inc.
http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com
613-286-0992
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