[thelist] Simple CGI Languages

[Boris Mann]

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
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