This book teaches the essentials of working with the most important web technologies. From client development using HTML and Javascript, through to full server side applications written in ASP and Perl, the complete web system is shown. Concentrating on immediately useful code rather than theory, this is a how-to book for practical and project based courses. The technologies which are described in the book have stabilized over the last two years and become solid, well established parts of a programmer’s toolkit.

About the Author

Chris has been teaching a web programming course for several years to a large and diverse group of students during which he has created and refined the examples and exercises used in the book.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction · Hypertext Markup Language · More HTML · Cascading Stylesheets · Cascading Style Sheets Two · An Introduction to JavaScriptObjects in JavaScript · Dynamic HTML with JavaScript · Programming in Perl 5 · CGI Scripting · Building Web Applications With Perl · An Introduction to PHP · Building Web Applications With PHP · XML: Defining Data for Web Applications · Good Design · Protocols · Case Study Glossary Appendix A: Accessing a Database From PHP Using mysqli Appendix B: Accessing a Database From PHP Using Pear DB Appendix C: HTML Color Codes Appendix D: HTML Entities Index