Web Wizard's Guide to Perl and CGI

Name: Web Wizard's Guide to Perl and CGI
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ISBN: 9780201764369

ISBN-10: 0201764369

ISBN-13: 9780201764369

Edition: 2002

Authors: David A. Lash

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B The Web Wizard's Guide to Perl and CGI teaches readers how to create Web sites that will have an audience coming back for more. From writing scripts to analyzing users' data, this book helps readers create well-designed, user-friendly Web sites. This book covers the following topics: elementary scripts, programming and Perl basics, the Perl/Web interface, advanced Perl statements, how to store data in arrays, how to use Perl to work with Patterns, and how to use multiple page forms that share data. It assumes no programming experience, and also acts as a handy reference. The Web Wizard Series from Addison-Wesley is a series of brief, introductory books written by instructors on Internet…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English




Introduction


Scope of Book


What is CGI?


What is Perl?


Getting Started



Starting Your First Script


Creating Your First Perl Scripts


Getting Your Scripts Going



Some Programming and Perl Basics


Generating HTML from Perl


Numerical Variables


String Variables


Mathematical Operations


Conditional Tests


Simple Sub-Routines



The Perl/Web Interface


Non-form ways to start CGI


Getting HTML input from forms



Some Advanced Perl Statements


Looping


Advanced Sub-Routine Usage



Storing Data in Arrays


What is an Array?


Manipulating Data in Arrays


Hashes



Using Perl to Work with Patterns


Why Pattern Matching is Important


Splitting Elements


Pattern Matching


File I/O



Using Multiple Page Forms that Share Data


Sharing Information Between Screens


Saving (and Accessing) Data On Site Visitor's PC



Using FTP to Copy data to a server



Using Telnet to login



Generating form elements without CGI.pm