Whats the best way to learn CGI Scripting?

[LadyClaire]

I am presently working on my translator in Javascript (thank you rac2 for the help) but it is taking forever to do, so I would really appriciate help learning CGI becasue it would make things go so much faster.

 

[jimoblak]

How about ASP (Miscrosoft) or PHP (free)? These may be more accessible than CGI.

 

[LadyClaire]

At the moment my web server is though angelfire and I dont remember seeing anything about them supporting ASP or PHP. I do know they support CGI though. I am willing to learn ASP and PHP though. Always willing ot learn new things. So any help with it would be great. (What I am doing is treating a language translator and have a full dictionary I am putting on it, and through JavaScript I have to type in every word then its translation then do the same for phrases and translate those also.)

 

[jimoblak]

Would you be reinventing the wheel from

http://www.systransoft.com

?

How big is this dictionary? If it contains thousands of words I would not recommend touching Javascript (client-side scripting) as you would probably need to include all of your words in the HTML - - making a colossal file. A situation like this would be best handled by a separate database file that gets called on by the web page and only grabs the relevant data in small pieces for easy downloading (server-side scripting).

There is a good book on Perl/CGI scripting from Peachpit Press (QuickStart Series). It only costs $20.

You can probably find more online info at devshed.com and webmonkey.com

 

[LadyClaire]

I am wanting to make something like that translator but I am makeing a translator to translate between English and Quenya (the High Elven speech) and Sindarin (the Gray Elven speech), from all of J.R.R. Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth. Yes it might seem pointless to most but it is important to me. I have found a translator already made for English to Drow (darker more evil elves) which can be found at

http://members.sagacio.com/uo/drowtop.html

but there isnt one for other elves. This is what I am wanting to do. ANd yes I know I dont want to touch java script, worked on it for like 7 hours and only have A - E of my dictionary done. I was hopeing I coudl find a way to make a translator where it would call up on a single text file, find the word and or phase inthe file and give the translation. Thanks for your help jimoblak