Cgi for Commerce: A Complete Web-Based Selling Solution [Paperback]

Gunther Birznieks (Author), Selena Sol (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

This pack aims to provide a complete solution for selling products over the Internet for those with little or no programming experience.

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All commercial systems involve sending information from a client computer (operated by a customer) to a server computer (operated by a vendor). The standard that's evolved to allow such transactions is called Common Gateway Interface (CGI). On top of its useful architectural discussions, CGI for Commerce does a fine job of explaining CGI data streams--something you're going to have to understand if you want to build programs that extract useful data from such streams. Other excellent CGI books exist, but none offer the kind of commercial orientation that's found here.

Product Details

• Paperback: 413 pages
• Publisher: M & T Books (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558515593
• ISBN-13: 978-1558515598
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,669,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Free Code, February 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Cgi for Commerce: A Complete Web-Based Selling Solution (Paperback)

This book is for anyone who knows some PERL and wants to save days or weeks coding a shopping cart/ordering system. It could most accurately be described as a detailed, line by line description of a complex (but NOT overly complicated) free software application which is provided on the book's cd-rom.

Just remember that you must know some basic PERL and have already set up a few simple websites on a UNIX server, otherwise you will be lost. If you want to learn PERL, this is as good a project as any, but remember that you will be thumbing through a PERL book at the same time. If you are an intermediate level PERL hacker, you should have the basic demo application up and running in a couple of hours, max.

The program is very good and extremely easy to customize to your exact needs. The book is marred by some typos, inconsistancies and embarrasing grammatical errors, but is an absolutely invaluable resource for anyone wanting an excellent, cheap and flexible PERL based CGI shopping cart on their website.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good information but written for computer geeks, July 20, 1998

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This review is from: Cgi for Commerce: A Complete Web-Based Selling Solution (Paperback)

Very nice information if I want to go to programmers school. Needs more of a what if content. No real trouble shooting. It has taken me almost 6 months to understand and it will take another six to setup on my server.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book about CGI so far, covers all topics., June 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Cgi for Commerce: A Complete Web-Based Selling Solution (Paperback)

It covers graphic generation, file access, DB management, security transaction. E-mail access... Enough topics, good details. There is a shopping-cart example, gives good reference for writing complex cgi program.