- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (24 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0130126535
- ISBN-13: 978-0130126535
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.7 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,524,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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PERL lets you streamline or automate virtually any Web development task. Now, learn PERL fast, as you build two Web sites that reflect today's most common scenarios: a company selling products and educating visitors; and a content site selling ads and subscriptions. The finished sites are on the Web, so you can reuse the code -- and see how your pages should look, and work! Use PERL to read and write files; send email; search the Web; implement counters; authenticate users; rotate banners; deploy forms; and much more. Essential PERL for Web Programmers is one in a new series of books that share the same dynamic Web site, and can teach you all the Web skills you need, from JavaScript to Photoshop -- fast!
PERL lets you streamline or automate virtually any Web development task. Now, learn PERL fast, as you build two Web sites that reflect today's most common scenarios: a company selling products and educating visitors; and a content site selling ads and subscriptions. The finished sites are on the Web, so you can reuse the code -- and see how your pages should look, and work! Use PERL to read and write files; send email; search the Web; implement counters; authenticate users; rotate banners; deploy forms; and much more. Essential PERL for Web Programmers is one in a new series of books that share the same dynamic Web site, and can teach you all the Web skills you need, from JavaScript to Photoshop -- fast!
CONTENTS
1. Learning to Read and Write.
New Features. Reading External Files with Perl. Reading an External File through a Browser. Project I: Automating Articles. Randomize. Displaying Files by Time of Day. Project II: Writing to External Files.
2. E-mail Script!
Project I: E-mail Script. Quick Introduction to Forms. E-mail Return Script. Checking for Required Fields. sub print_error_page. Passing Variables Back to the User. Writing the Results to a File (Comma and Tab Delimited). Modified E-mail Script.
3. Interacting with Users.
Project I: Write a Guestbook. Project II: Multiple Choice Logging Poll or Voting Booth. Project III: Quiz.
4. Searching the Web.
Project I: Basic Search Engine. Project II: Advanced Search Engine.
5. Who's Watching Whom.
Project I: Tracking Visitors. Project II: Password Protection.
Appendix A: An Introduction to Forms. Appendix B: Stepping through the Perly Gates. Appendix C: Miscellaneous Reference. Index.
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Format:Paperback
I approached this book as a competant programmer with web experience but no knowledge of CGI or Perl. I was looking for a book that would give real world examples of the most common uses of Perl in websites - e-mail scripts, search scripts and reading and writing data files. If this sounds like you, buy it! The book is excellent and quickly give me the confidence to approach projects that required Perl.
Though be warned, if you are not a programmer, don't expect miracles. Also, if you are a programmer who wants to thoroughly understand what you are learning, this is not for you - go for a more complex reference book.
This is ideal for the contract programmer with little time and tight deadlines to advance beyond flat HTML sites with the minimum of effort and without messing up projects.
Format:Paperback
I had enconutered errors when running example scripts in the program. Especially the search.cgi and get_form_data.pl. Overall, the book is simple to read and understand. Not much elaboration on comments in the example scripts.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I Used This Book to Teach Myself PERL/CGI For The WEB
5 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
Excellent book for learning web-based PERL applications. The examples were concisely and fairly well explained. The appendix does a good job of elaborating in more detail. You probably will not like this book if you do not have a programming background. Also, you'll need a good PERL reference book as a companion. The book does not come with a CD ROM, so you'll have to type out the examples.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Nothing about Perl *5* in this book!
25 Sep 1999
Format:Paperback
This is an OK beginner book on CGI and Perl, but why in the world did they title it "Perl 5 for..."? I'm proficient in Perl 4 and I assumed that this book would tell me all about working with objects and all the other new stuff in version 5. Seemed like a reasonable assumption based on the title. However, the only place that Perl 5 is even mentioned is on the cover!! As a general introduction to Perl and CGI, a much better book is "Visual Quickstart Guide to Perl and CGI" by Elizabeth Castro.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
For diving into web CGI this is a MUST BUY
11 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
If you are interested in learning perl for web cgi functions this book rocks. Its the only one I have run into that gives examples of code and explains it line by line, in layman! The only reason I am giving it 4 stars is because I could have used a few more examples. The book is toooo short. I warn potental readers that this book does not go into great detail about the perl language itself (which is useful for much more than web CGI) but if you don't care about that and want to dive into making forms and interactive web pages you have to buy this book now!
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