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The CGI Cookbook: Perl and Java Script (Paperback)

by Craig Patchett (Author), Matthew Wright (Author) "Welcome to the CGI/Perl Cookbook! ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 656 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Pap/Cdr edition (20 Oct 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471168963
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471168966
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.5 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 948,232 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services
"This book should definitely be on your shelf for ready-to-run programs and inspiration for your own custom programs."

Product Description
Custom subroutine library for developing your own CGI programs
∗ Line–by–line explanations of 20 of the most popular CGI programs and subroutines that are essential to your Web site
∗ Compatible with Perl 4 and 5
∗ Tested under WindowsR(r), UNIXR(r), and MacOSR(r)

If you want to make your Web site as interactive as possible, as soon as possible, you′ve come to the right place! This book/CD powerhouse arms you with 20 of today′s most–demanded CGI programs and subroutines, designed and written especially for this book, each ready to load and use. At the same time, it offers you a quick, painless, and unique hands–on way to learn basic and advanced CGI/Perl programming.

The CGI/Perl Cookbook begins with a concise overview of CGI programming for beginners, followed by a guide to installing CGI programs on UNIX, PC, and MacOS Web servers. The rest of the book is devoted to line–by–line, feature–by–feature explanations of seven cutting–edge CGI programs; including a search engine, password protection, advanced form processing, a shopping cart, customized bulk e–mail, advanced visitor feedback, and more; as well as 13 subroutines for e–mail support, file encoding, credit card validation, e–mail address checking, error handling, and text encryption. You also get a usage guide, installation instructions, and professional CGI and Perl programming tricks and customization tips for each program and subroutine.

The CD–ROM is a gold mine of ready–to–use software and valuable information. You get:
∗ All the CGI programs from the book–code and ready–to–run versions
∗ The complete Matt′s Script Archive
∗ A collection of the best scripts from across the Web–source code included
∗ The complete Perl programming manual
∗ The most recent Windows, UNIX, and MacOS versions of Perl

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid at all costs, 31 Dec 2002
By David Cross "davorg" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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There are certain things that a Perl/CGI book should tell you. A short list would include 1/ using "use strict" and "-w" in all your scripts, 2/ using the standard CGI.pm module and 3/ using taint mode to ensure that and data you're reading from the outside world is what you expect it to be. This book contains none of those. When you add to that the fact that Matt Wright is well-known in the Perl community for being a very bad programmer you end up with a book that should be avoided at all costs.

Sure, Matt and Craig explain what they know really well and beginners learn a lot from this book very quickly. But they don't know very much about Perl or CGI. What you'll learn will be full of bad code and misunderstandings about Perl. The worst part is thar Matt and Craig know very little about CGI security and running their scripts on your server leaves you open to a number of attacks from crackers.

Please don't buy this book.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Untrustworthy, 13 Mar 2001
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Matt Wright's scripts have a really bad reputation for security: they've got lots of well-publicised security holes, which he hasn't fixed. If you run these scripts on your site, then you're taking a big risk.

I'd suggest you get O'Reilly's CGI Programming with Perl instead.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A flawed masterpiece?, 30 April 1999
By A Customer
The idea behind this book is an excellent one - write a half-dozen real world cgi applications and publish them with a line-by line explanation. The buyer can pick up the code, put it on their server and learn something about PERL while they're at it. Add a whole web-site dedicated to hints tips and further expansions and you're on to a winner right?

Well, wrong actually. Getting these scripts to actually work is a major undertaking. Once you've wrestled with getting everything loaded into the right directories, with the right permissions you'll find that some of the scripts won't even compile. This casts rather a lot of doubt on the months the authors claim to have spent in testing. These bugs (and more) are fixed on the book's web site, but judging by the (often unanswered) postings to the message boards there they aren't the only ones. I think a genuine novice, without unix or perl skills will give up and go elsewhere.

If you're prepared to invest time in dealing with the bugs, and have the skills to do it, you'll find a lot of useful stuff in it. Craig's writing style, too, is clear and straightforward. I hope they publish a corrected & expanded second edition as that really would be a masterpiece.

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3.0 out of 5 stars OK... nothing great.
This book was generally OK, hwoever I would not rate it amongst my top progarmming books. I have previously read many books and felt that a lot were more productive than this... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars The code in this book is terrible
I friend of mine has this book, and I thought I'd take a look at a couple of the example they give, becaue I am trying to write a search engine. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars a how-to on "wright"ing buggy code
Matt Wright is infamous for his buggy, quirky, nonfunctional coding. Why you would want to spend 40 or more dollars for the privilege of verifying his nonworking poorly... Read more
Published on 16 May 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book (a bit expensive for its content though)
a good book in cgi/perl programming; a nice variety of programs and modules useful to all webmasters. however, a bit expensive! Read more
Published on 6 April 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars From the world's worst CGI author...
The publisher says Matt Wright's scripts are "...has written some of the most reliable, secure... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid at all costs
Matt's Script Archive is well known as one of the most used repositories of Perl/CGI scripts on the Internet. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Falls short on promises, There are better/easier ways...
For a start, the book itself doesn't expound on 20 scripts that I can see, unless they are counting the individual support subroutines as scripts? Read more
Published on 29 Oct 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book for Programmers
When I needed to learn CGI fast, I turned to a handbook. When I needed to build fast, high-performance web applications, I turned to The CGI/Perl Cookbook. Read more
Published on 23 May 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars CGI-Perl Cookbook is one of the best books out there.
I've been on Matt's Scripts Support List for over a year now, and I didn't think there were any decent books on Perl. Read more
Published on 8 April 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars CGI/Perl Cookbook is a must read for all web developers
The CGI/Perl Cookbook writen by Craig Patchett and Matthew Wright is a great book for web developer's interested in adding cgi/perl features to their web site. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 1998

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