Instant Perl Modules

Name: Instant Perl Modules
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ISBN: 9780072129625

ISBN-10: 007212962X

ISBN-13: 9780072129625

Edition: 2001

Authors: Doug Sparling

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Publication date: 2/22/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Introduction	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction to Perl Modules	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Getting Perl Modules from the CPAN	p. 2
Installing Perl Modules	p. 2
Manual Installation on UNIX	p. 3
Manual Installation on Windows	p. 3
Automated Installation on UNIX using the CPAN Module	p. 4
Automated Installation on Windows using PPM	p. 5
Installation on Other Operating Systems	p. 6
Installing Modules to a Private Directory	p. 6
Using Perl Modules	p. 7
Finding Installed Modules	p. 9
Where Are Modules Located?	p. 9
Which Modules Are Installed?	p. 10
Module Documentation	p. 11
Summary	p. 11
The Standard Modules	p. 13
Overview of the Standard Perl Modules	p. 14
Benchmark	p. 21
Carp	p. 23
Class::Struct	p. 25
Config	p. 28
config_sh()	p. 28
config_vars(@name)	p. 28
myconfig()	p. 29
Cwd	p. 30
Env	p. 31
File::Basename	p. 32
File::Compare	p. 33
File::Copy	p. 34
File::Find	p. 35
Getopt::Long	p. 36
Argument Specifiers	p. 36
Option Destination	p. 38
Getopt::Std	p. 39
IO::File	p. 42
Text::Abbrev	p. 44
Text::Wrap	p. 45
Time::Local	p. 46
Time::gmtime	p. 47
Time::localtime	p. 48
Summary	p. 49
Dates and Times	p. 51
Overview of Dates and Times	p. 52
Date::Calc	p. 52
Date::Format	p. 55
Date::Manip	p. 58
Date::Parse	p. 61
Time::HiRes	p. 61
Summary	p. 63
Databases	p. 65
Introduction	p. 66
DB_File	p. 66
DBI	p. 71
Summary	p. 78
Graphics	p. 79
Graphics	p. 80
Finding the Size of an Image	p. 80
Finding the Size of an Image with Image::Magick	p. 80
Finding the Size of an Image with Image::Size	p. 81
Manipulating Images with Image::Magick	p. 83
Creating Dynamic Images with GD.pm	p. 84
Creating Graphs with GD::Graph	p. 90
Summary	p. 95
Perl/Tk: Creating Graphical User Interfaces	p. 97
Introduction to Perl/Tk	p. 98
Brief Overview of Perl/Tk	p. 98
Simple Example: Hello World	p. 98
Widgets	p. 101
Creating the Main Window	p. 102
Creating Widgets	p. 102
Common Widget Options	p. 104
Callbacks and Binding	p. 107
Label Widget	p. 109
Button	p. 111
Checkbutton	p. 112
Radiobutton	p. 114
Entry	p. 116
Text	p. 117
Listbox	p. 120
Scrollbar	p. 122
Scale	p. 125
Frame	p. 128
Menu	p. 129
Geometry Managers	p. 133
Pack	p. 134
Grid	p. 136
Place	p. 137
Summary	p. 139
E-mail	p. 141
Sending E-mail	p. 142
Receiving E-mail	p. 145
Sending Attachments	p. 149
Summary	p. 153
Internet Protocols	p. 155
Introduction	p. 156
DNS Lookups	p. 156
Pinging a Host	p. 159
Getting Whois Information	p. 160
Using FTP in Perl	p. 161
Using Telnet in Perl	p. 163
Creating a TCP Client	p. 165
Creating a TCP Server	p. 166
Summary	p. 168
CGI.pm	p. 169
Overview of CGI.pm	p. 170
Interface	p. 170
Function-Oriented Interface	p. 170
Object-Oriented Interface	p. 172
Processing the Form	p. 172
Getting the Value(s) of a Single Named Parameter	p. 173
Getting the Values of All Parameters	p. 174
Generating HTML Output	p. 174
Generating Headers	p. 174
Generating Standard HTML Elements	p. 177
Generating Form Elements	p. 177
Cookies	p. 187
File Uploads	p. 191
Debugging	p. 194
Summary	p. 195
Fun CGI Applications	p. 197
Introduction	p. 198
Voting Booth	p. 198
Overview	p. 198
HTML Form	p. 198
Data and Log Files	p. 200
CGI Script	p. 201
Guestbook	p. 209
Postcards	p. 217
Chat	p. 229
Summary	p. 234
CGI and Databases	p. 235
Introduction	p. 236
Feedback Form	p. 236
Resume Submit Form	p. 242
Job Board	p. 246
CD Database	p. 267
Summary	p. 278
CGI: Commerce and Community	p. 279
Introduction	p. 280
Online Computer Store	p. 280
Online Forum	p. 293
Summary	p. 306
Site Administration	p. 307
Introduction	p. 308
Online HTML Editor	p. 308
Parsing Log Files	p. 313
htaccess	p. 316
Checking Server Ports	p. 322
Summary	p. 328
Site Utilities	p. 329
Introduction	p. 330
Site Search	p. 330
Searching the Web	p. 332
Recommend a Site	p. 336
Banner Ad Rotation	p. 341
Online Perl Syntax Checker	p. 350
Online Notes	p. 353
Summary	p. 360
Web Programming	p. 361
Web Automation with LWP	p. 362
Getting Web Documents with LWP::Simple	p. 362
Getting Web Documents with LWP::UserAgent	p. 367
Getting Protected Documents with LWP:;UserAgent	p. 372
Automating Form Submission	p. 372
Specifying and Converting URLs with URI::URL	p. 374
Specifying URLs	p. 374
Converting Relative URLs to Absolute URLs	p. 375
Converting Absolute URLs to Relative URLs	p. 376
Parsing and Processing HTML	p. 377
Parsing HTML with HTML::Parser	p. 377
Extracting Links with HTML::LinkExtor	p. 381
HTML::Entities	p. 386
Summary	p. 387
Win32	p. 389
The Win32 Library	p. 390
The Win32 Module	p. 390
Error Handling	p. 390
OS and Build Information	p. 391
User, Machine, and Domain Names	p. 392
Finding and Changing the Current Working Directory	p. 393
File System	p. 394
Next Available Drive	p. 396
Tick Count	p. 396
Message Box	p. 397
Processes	p. 398
Win32::Spawn	p. 398
Win32::Process	p. 399
OLE Automation	p. 402
Creating and Writing to an Excel Spreadsheet	p. 403
Extracting Data from an Excel Spreadsheet	p. 404
Creating a Chart with Excel	p. 405
Database Access with ODBC	p. 406
Using Win32::ODBC	p. 406
Film Database Application	p. 408
Summary	p. 412
XML	p. 413
Introduction	p. 414
Parsing XML with XML::Parser	p. 414
Overview of XML::Parser	p. 414
Parsing a Simple XML Document	p. 415
Converting XML to Text	p. 417
Converting XML to HTML	p. 420
XML::RSS	p. 423
Overview	p. 423
RSS Syntax	p. 423
Create an RSS Channel	p. 425
Converting RSS to HTML	p. 427
Summary	p. 435
Pragmas	p. 437
Introduction	p. 437
constant	p. 439
diagnostics	p. 440
integer	p. 440
lib	p. 441
strict	p. 442
strict 'refs'	p. 442
strict 'vars'	p. 443
strict 'subs'	p. 443
vars	p. 444
Summary	p. 444
Creating Perl Modules	p. 445
Building Modules the Smart Way	p. 445
Module Internals--Functional	p. 447
Module Internals--Object Oriented	p. 451
Summary	p. 453
Perl Security	p. 455
Temp File Security	p. 455
Using Taint	p. 456
Better Coding Practices	p. 457
Summary	p. 457
Perl Resources	p. 459
Online Resources	p. 459
CPAN--http://www.cpan.org	p. 459
The Official Perl Site--http://www.perl.com	p. 459
use Perl--http://use.perl.org	p. 460
Perl Mongers--http://www.perl.org	p. 460
Perldoc.com--http://www.perldoc.com	p. 460
Perl Monks--http://www.perlmonks.com	p. 460
Randal Schwartz's Magazine Articles--http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/	p. 460
EFNet IRC Channel #perl	p. 460
Offline Resources	p. 461
POD: Plain Old Documentation	p. 461
Manual Pages--man	p. 461
The Perl Journal	p. 461
Perl Books	p. 462
Summary	p. 462
Installing the PostgreSQL Database	p. 463
Introduction	p. 463
Installation from RPM	p. 463
Installation from Source	p. 464
Initial Database Setup	p. 467
Summary	p. 468
Installing Apache	p. 469
Index	p. 473
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