assaqqaf
Reputation: 1585
CGI and PHP why? and when?
one day I chat with a experienced programmer about devloping file hosting system, he tell me it's need to use cgi in your program to work in best way.
so what is cgi ?
whay to use?
and when?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 331
Answers (2)
pavium
Reputation: 15118
Some of these links will be more helpful than others. A google search will find plenty more.
- http://htmlhelp.com/faq/cgifaq.html
- http://www.unixtools.com/cgi.html
- http://www.tech-faq.com/cgi-scripting.shtml
- http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/web/faq/index.xml.ID=CGI
My impression, for what it's worth, is that CGI is less popular than it once was.
There are only 222 questions on SO tagged 'cgi'.
Upvotes: 1
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