Using PHP and Javascript instead of CGI

So you have moved to a new job in data processing as part of web application development. At your old job, you used CGI to process forms, but the new server does not allow CGI. The hotshot AJAX guru who left only has PHP and Javascript. You don't have time to muck about with Apache. What's a Python programmer supposed to do? Flourish and excel, and this tutorial will show you how.

• Introduction
• About PHP and Javascript
• Javascript: The submit() Function
• PHP: "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor"
• Passing Form Data With Javascript
• PHP as a CGI stand-in
• Looking at the PHP script: Part 1
• Looking at the PHP script: Part 2
• Concluding Comments