Web programming is about more than creating and formatting webpages and websites, though that is often a starting point for many. Using scripting languages such as JavaScript, Perl and PH,  it becomes possible to add a lot more functionality to a site. 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 broad scope covered by this book begins by creating reasonably simple webpages with HTML, then working through related document and content tagging systems such as dynamic HTML and eventually XML.

Table of Contents:
Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 HTML, XML, and the World Wide Web 3 Exercises 13 Part I HTML 15 2 Hypertext Markup Language 17 2.1 Basic HTML 17 2.2 The Document Body 22 2.3 Text 26 2.4 Hyperlinks 31 2.5 Adding More Formatting 37 2.6 Lists 37 2.7 Using Color and Images 42 2.8 Images 43 Exercises 47 3 More HTML 50 3.1 Tables 51 3.2 Multimedia Objects 57 3.3 Frames 64 3.4 Forms – Toward Interactivity 69 3.5 The HTML Document Head in Detail 73 3.6 XHTML – An Evolutionary Markup 77 Exercises 82 Part II Stylesheets 85 4 Cascading Stylesheets 87 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 Using Styles: Simple Examples 88 4.3 Defining Your Own Styles 93 4.4 Properties and Values in Styles 97 4.5 Stylesheets – AWorked Example 102 4.6 Formatting Blocks of Information 106 4.7 Layers 109 Exercises 119 5 Cascading Style Sheets Two 121 5.1 The Design Of CSS2 122 5.2 Styling For Paged Media 124 5.3 Using Aural Presentation 127 5.4 Counters And Numbering 131 Exercises 135 Part III JavaScript 137 6 An Introduction to JavaScript 139 6.1 What is Dynamic HTML? 140 6.2 JavaScript 141 6.3 JavaScript – The Basics 144 6.4 Variables 151 6.5 String Manipulation 158 6.6 Mathematical Functions 163 6.7 Statements 167 6.8 Operators 174 6.9 Arrays 175 6.10 Functions 188 Exercises 196 7 Objects in JavaScript 198 7.1 Data and Objects in JavaScript 198 7.2 Regular Expressions 203 7.3 Exception Handling 211 7.4 Built-in Objects 215 7.5 Cookies 225 7.6 Events 230 Exercises 235 8 Dynamic HTML with JavaScript 237 8.1 Data Validation 238 8.2 Opening a New Window 242 8.3 Messages and Confirmations 244 8.4 The Status Bar 245 8.5 Writing to a Different Frame 246 8.6 Rollover Buttons 252 8.7 Moving Images 257 8.8 Multiple Pages in a Single Download 261 8.9 A Text-only Menu System 264 8.10 Floating Logos 267 Exercises 270 Part IV Perl 273 9 Programming in Perl 5 275 9.1 Why Perl? 277 9.2 On-line Documentation 278 9.3 The Basic Perl Program 280 9.4 Scalars 283 9.5 Arrays 287 9.6 Hashes 293 9.7 Control Structures 299 9.8 Processing Text 308 9.9 Regular Expressions 319 9.10 Using Files 328 9.11 Subroutines 331 9.12 Bits and Pieces 335 Exercises 340 10 CGI Scripting 346 10.1 What is CGI? 346 10.2 Developing CGI Applications 347 10.3 Processing CGI 348 10.4 Introduction to CGI.pm 349 10.5 CGI.pm Methods 351 10.6 Creating HTML Pages Dynamically 352 10.7 Using CGI.pm – An Example 356 10.8 Adding Robustness 357 10.9 Carp 360 10.10 Cookies 361 Exercises 367 11 Building Web Applications With Perl 369 11.1 Uploading Files 371 11.2 Tracking Users With Hidden Data 376 11.3 Using Relational Databases 379 11.4 Using libwww 386 11.5 Template-based Sites With HTML::Mason 393 11.6 Creating And Manipulating Images 402 Exercises 417 Part V PHP 419 12 An Introduction to PHP 421 12.1 PHP 422 12.2 Introducing PHP 423 12.3 Including PHP in a Page 425 12.4 Data Types 429 12.5 Program Control 434 12.6 Arrays 441 12.7 User-Defined Functions 450 12.8 Built-in Functions 452 12.9 Regular Expression 464 12.10 Using Files 468 Exercises 473 13 Building Web Applications With PHP 475 13.1 Tracking Users 476 13.2 Using Databases 485 13.3 Handling XML 498 Exercises 506 Part VI Miscellany 509 14 XML: Defining Data for Web Applications 511 14.1 Basic XML 514 14.2 Document Type Definition 523 14.3 XML Schema 530 14.4 Document Object Model 533 14.5 Presenting XML 535 14.6 Handling XML with Perl 546 14.7 Using XML::Parser 550 14.8 Handling the DOM with Perl 558 Exercises 568 15 Good Design 569 15.1 Structure 571 15.2 Tables versus Frames versus . . . 572 15.3 Accessibility 577 15.4 Internationalization 581 Exercises 581 16 Protocols 583 16.1 Protocols 584 16.2 IP and TCP 585 16.3 Hypertext Transfer Protocol 588 16.4 Common Gateway Interface 592 16.5 The Document Object Model 596 16.6 Introducing The Document Object Model 598 Exercises 599 17 Case Study 601 17.1 The Plan 601 17.2 The Data 603 Part VII Appendices 607 Glossary 609 Appendix A Accessing a Database From PHP Using mysqli 613 Appendix B Accessing a Database From PHP Using Pear DB 619 Appendix C HTML Color Codes 625 Appendix D HTML Entities 630 Index 639