Web scripts are pages of code that are designed to be accessed on the Internet to accomplish a particular task. You can think of them like applications on the web. Each web script can be written in one of several different programming languages (PHP, Perl, Java, (D or X)HTML, and so on). There are hundreds of thousands of freely available web scripts that are designed to satisfy almost any need you might have without your having to personally create code from scratch. For example, perhaps you want to host photos on your website so others can view them or perhaps you aren’t any good at working with HTML and would rather have some other program take care of the code so you can focus on the content. There are web scripts that can help you with both of these issues and many more. We will learn about several web scripts in this chapter.
Before you can use any web script, you need to know what programming languages your web host supports. To be sure, you will need to ask your...