Web Prototyping with Scripting: Practical Experiments in PHP and Perl

Ready to move beyond static web pages and discover how the dynamic web operates? This text-only course guides you through the fundamentals of backend scripting, allowing you to build lightweight web prototypes while understanding server-side logic. What you'll learn: - Understand the foundational mechanics of web requests and client-server communication. - Create functional web prototypes using PHP to handle user inputs and dynamic content. - Write basic Perl scripts to explore text processing and legacy server automation. - Apply essential modern security practices, including input sanitization and validation. - Troubleshoot and debug common backend errors in a local development environment. You will begin with core concepts and basic syntax, then progress through practical, written code walkthroughs that demonstrate working backend prototypes. This course is perfect for beginners with a basic grasp of HTML who want to understand backend programming. Start reading today to build your own web scripting experiments.