A complete guide to creating interactive Web pages using the Perl CGI.pm library from its creator. Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm contains all the information about CGI.pm found in Perl′s online manual, but in a completely reorganized and greatly expanded format. It also includes valuable labor–saving tips and hints you won′t find anywhere else. Featuring step–by–step instructions and complete source code, it shows you how to: ∗ Download, install, and configure CGI.pm ∗ Generate HTML documents on the fly ∗ Process fill–out forms and create multipage documents ∗ Perform script debugging and state maintenance ∗ Design interactive clickable image maps ∗ Store and process cookies ∗ Attach JavaScript and cascading style sheets to your documents ∗ Write state–maintaining scripts ∗ Modify and extend CGI.pm ∗ Tap the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/stein On the Web site you′ll find: ∗ The most recent and all future revisions to the CGI.pm module ∗ All the source code examples from the book ∗ Online documentation for CGI.pm ∗ Links to CPAN and other Web–related software written by the author. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/
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CGI.pm, a Perl library for writing CGI scripts, delivers elegant solutions for using and updating Web forms. The author, Lincoln Stein, realised the need for a clean and simple way to manage forms and--as a columnist for the Perl Journal, a scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and a Web-based software author--created that solution. He's (refreshingly) humble about this creative process, explaining that it took him a few steps until he realised the key to this HTML/Perl hybrid: simplicity.
The CGI.pm standard allows the site manager to separate data from its HTML markup for use in CGI forms. For example, all the elements in a short drop-down menu of vegetables can be placed in one array, changing this:
- peas
- broccoli
- cabbage
to this:
li(["peas","broccoli","cabbage"])
to be used later throughout a Perl script.
Lincoln Stein's Guide to CGI.pm is geared toward a reader who is familiar enough with Perl to have used modules and knowledgeable about HTML and Web-site design. Stein uses CGI.pm for tables, drop-down menus, guest books, single-page or multipart forms, image maps, and cookies. The author of both the book and Perl library function, Stein provides ample discussion of all of these areas, along with strong code examples. The book ends with a verbose reference guide detailing all of CGI.pm's functions and features, grouped both alphabetically and by topic.
The use of CGI.pm requires a mind shift for Web-site managers, but it's one worth making. Instead of tags for "input" and "select", CGI.pm uses statements such as "checkbox ()" and "textfield ()", allowing documents to be read easily and updated quickly. --Jennifer Buckendorff
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This book should be part of every Web programmer's library. -- Internet Research, July 1999
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This book will be an absolute necessity for CGI programmers writing in Perl. It's a description of a must-use tool by the tool's creator. It goes well beyond the online and POD documentation for CGI.pm. The example code snippets and programs are well chosen. There are a few problems: the organization of the reference section is confusing, and the descriptions of table(), Tr(), and td() don't explain how to enter attributes. (But the table examples show how to do that, so it's not much of a problem.) Summary: if you write CGI in Perl, get this book and use it.
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A light-weight book (300 pages including the appendices and index) that goes straight to the point. Don't expect any lengthy explanation on Perl scripts or HTML tags as this is not the purpose of this book and the author assumes you are already proficient in those two languages. And if you are, this is the perfect reference book to understand how the "glue" called CGI.pm works. You will find all the explanations you need to use the package, with good examples that actually work, and nothing more.
The ideal companion to the O'Reilly Perl books for those who want to add life to their web pages.
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I got this book thinking "well .. its probably just the man pages and a few drawings .. " WRONG .. Lincoln Steins guide is an excellent refernce texrt fo rCGI.pm and gives you far more insight into how the module can be used than the man pages ever did. The man pages tend to suggest the OO methods as the way to use the module .. this book explains them both but also shows how much can be done using procedural methods that simply isn't mentioned in the man pages at all. if you write CGi using the GCI.pm then you need this book ..!
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