In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)

Stephen Spainhour co-authored Webmaster in a Nutshell, Perl in a Nutshell, 1st Edition, and contributed to many other O'Reilly titles. He is an avid fan of professional tennis, and when he's not checking for tennis scores on the Web, he enjoys cooking, electronic music, troubleshooting his home-built PC, and watching too much television. Robert Eckstein, an editor at O'Reilly, works mostly on Java books (notably Java Swing) and is also responsible for the XML Pocket Reference and Webmaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. In his spare time he has been known to provide online coverage for popular conferences. He also writes articles for JavaWorld magazine. Robert holds bachelor's degrees in computer science and communications from Trinity University. In the past, he has worked for the USAA insurance company and more recently spent four years with Motorola's cellular software division.

"The internet programmers bible reincarnated!" - Amias Channer, LinuxFormat, July 2003

• Preface 1. The Web in a Nutshell Clients and Servers Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) Web Content: HTML, XML, CGI, JavaScript, and PHP The HTTP Protocol Web Servers Who Are the Webmasters? Recommended Books I. HTML 2. HTML Overview HTML Document Structure HTML Syntax XHTML Dynamic Content 3. HTML Reference Core Attributes HTML Tag and Attribute Descriptions 4. Frames Frame Layout Nested Framesets The Tag Frame Targets Frame Border Attributes 5. Tables The Tag The Tag The Tag The and Tags Border Color and Backgrounds Advanced Table Tags 6. Forms The Tag The Tag The Tag The Tag An Example Form 7. Character Entities 8. Color Names and Values II. CSS 9. Cascading Style Sheets The Elements of Styles Style Syntax Style Properties CSS Reference III. XML 10. XML XML Terminology XML Reference Entity and Character References Document Type Definitions The Extensible Stylesheet Language XSLT Style Sheet Structure Templates and Patterns XSLT Elements XPath XPointer and XLink IV. JavaScript 11. JavaScript Versions of JavaScript Syntax Client-Side JavaScript JavaScript API Reference V. CGI and Perl 12. CGI Overview A Typical CGI Interaction URL Encoding Extra Path Information CGI Environment Variables 13. Server Side Includes Configuring the Apache Server for SSI Basic SSI Directives SSI Environment Variables Configurable Time Formats for SSI Output Conditional Statements 14. The CGI.pm Module HTML Tag Generation Importing Method Groups Maintaining State Named Parameters Using JavaScript Features Debugging CGI.pm Reference 15. Web Server Programming with mod_perl Installing mod_perl Design of mod_perl mod_perl Handlers Running CGI Scripts with mod_perl Server Side Includes with mod_perl Sections Apache:: Modules The Perl API VI. PHP 16. PHP Installation and Configuration Embedding PHP in HTML Language Syntax Variables Data Types Expressions Operators Control Structures Functions Web-Related Variables Sessions Examples Function Reference VII. HTTP 17. HTTP Client Requests Server Responses and Status Codes HTTP Headers Cookies Media Types and Subtypes VIII. Server Configuration 18. Apache Configuration Understanding Apache Basic Server Configuration: Core Directives 19. Apache Modules 20. Web Performance Client-Side Performance HTML Authoring Programming Administration Using Analysis.cgi to Find A Bottleneck Monitoring Web Performance Using Perl Index