1. Lecture 1: Introduction to technologies and overview of various different solutions.
• Slides in PDF format one per page. (416K)
• Slides in PDF format four per page. (563K)
2. Lecture 2: SSI, server-side includes. Introduction and use.
• Slides in PDF format one per page. (220K)
• Slides in PDF format four per page. (244K)
• Example 1: Basic SSI
• Example 2: Time-dependent Text
• Example 3: Unix commands
• Example 4: Random colors the hard way
• Example 5: Pseudo-random quotes the easy way
3. Lecture 3: CGI. Various techniques, focusing on perl
• Slides in PDF format one per page. (324K)
• Slides in PDF format four per page. (355K)
4. Lecture 4: PHP: the latest powerful scripting language
• Slides in PDF format one per page. (380K)
• Slides in PDF format four per page. (577K)

References

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• Apache's documentation on SSI. You may also want to look at Sun's man page regexp(5) which explains the syntax of regular expressions. Also useful is the man page on strftime(3C). That time formatting syntax is used in SSI, Perl, and PHP.
• The cgiwrap man page explains how to execute and debug CGI scripts on the UVA CS web server.
• Perl's CGI module makes CGI programming in perl much easier.
• PHP documentation at php.net is the best place to get basic docs on PHP.
• www.phpWizard.net is a source of many resources for PHP developers.