CGI Programming 101 : Perl for the World Wide Web

Name: CGI Programming 101 : Perl for the World Wide Web
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ISBN: 9780966942606

ISBN-10: 0966942604

ISBN-13: 9780966942606

Edition: 1st 1999

Authors: Jacqueline D. Hamilton

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List price: $24.95
Edition: 1st
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: CGI101.COM
Binding: Perfect
Pages: 224
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction	p. ix
Getting Started	p. 1
Where to Write Your Scripts	p. 1
How to Upload Scripts to the Unix Host	p. 2
File Permissions	p. 2
Basics of a Perl Script	p. 2
Basics of a CGI Script	p. 3
Debugging a Script	p. 5
Perl Variables	p. 9
Scalar Variables	p. 9
Arrays	p. 10
Array Functions	p. 11
Hashes	p. 13
Hash Functions	p. 15
CGI Environment Variables	p. 17
A Simple Query Form	p. 19
Remote Host ID	p. 21
Last Page Visited	p. 22
Checking Browser Type	p. 22
Processing Forms	p. 25
Decoding Form Data	p. 26
A Form-to-Email CGI	p. 29
Sending Mail to More Than One Recipient	p. 32
Subroutines	p. 32
Advanced Forms	p. 35
If-Else Blocks	p. 35
Conditional Test Operators	p. 36
Handling Checkboxes	p. 36
Handling Radio Buttons	p. 38
Handling SELECT Fields	p. 40
Multiple-Choice SELECTs	p. 41
A Survey Form and CGI	p. 42
Reading and Writing Data files	p. 47
File Permissions	p. 47
Opening Files	p. 48
File Locking	p. 51
Closing Files	p. 52
Reading Files	p. 52
Multi-Script Forms	p. 57
When a Multi-Script Form is Used	p. 57
A Flat-File Catalog Database and Order Pages	p. 58
Searching and Sorting	p. 69
Searching	p. 69
Sorting	p. 72
Site-Wide Searching	p. 76
Using Server-Side Includes	p. 79
SSI Syntax	p. 79
List of SSI Elements	p. 80
Including Files	p. 84
Executing CGIs	p. 86
SSI Page Counter	p. 86
SSI Error Logger	p. 87
Passing Variables to a CGI	p. 89
Executing Server Commands	p. 90
Randomness	p. 93
Random Number Seeds	p. 93
A Random Image Picker	p. 94
A Random Password Generator	p. 95
A Random Ad Banner	p. 97
Redirects and Refreshes	p. 101
Sending Visitors to Other Pages	p. 101
Refreshes	p. 103
Working With Strings	p. 107
Comparing Strings	p. 107
Finding (and Replacing) Substrings	p. 108
Joining Strings	p. 109
Quoting with qq	p. 111
Formatting Strings with printf and sprintf	p. 112
Date and Time in Perl	p. 117
How to Generate the Date	p. 117
Greenwich Mean Time	p. 118
The Year 2000	p. 118
Month and Day Names	p. 119
Dates That Have Passed (or Have Yet to Happen)	p. 119
Formatting Dates and Times	p. 120
Countdown Clocks	p. 121
Christmas Countdown	p. 122
Year 2000 Countdown (or Count-Up)	p. 122
Regular Expressions	p. 125
Patterns	p. 125
Validating E-Mail Addresses	p. 127
Substitutions	p. 128
Stripping HTML Tags	p. 129
Backreferences	p. 129
Case-Insensitive Matching	p. 130
Anchoring a Match	p. 131
HTTP Cookies	p. 133
What is a Cookie?	p. 133
Cookie Parameters	p. 134
How to Set Cookies	p. 134
How to Read Cookies	p. 135
Limiting Paths	p. 137
Domains	p. 137
Multiple Cookies	p. 138
Writing Secure Scripts	p. 141
Tainted Data	p. 141
Taint Checking	p. 143
Untainting Data	p. 144
World-Writable Files	p. 146
Perl Modules	p. 149
Modules and Object Orientedness	p. 150
Using Modules: CGI.pm	p. 151
The All-in-One Form CGI	p. 153
Uploading Files From a Form	p. 156
Using Modules: GD.pm -- The Graphics Module	p. 158
Where to Find Modules	p. 161
Database Programming with Perl	p. 163
SQL	p. 163
MySQL	p. 164
The Perl DBI Module	p. 169
Inserting Data Into a Table	p. 173
A SQL Page Counter	p. 174
Writing Your Own Modules	p. 177
Exporting Variables	p. 180
Exporting Database Handles	p. 181
Writing Modules for Others	p. 181
Working With Unix	p. 183
Who's Online	p. 184
Whois CGI	p. 184
Buffering (Ping CGI)	p. 186
Scheduling Scripts With cron	p. 188
Conclusion	p. 191
Online Resources	p. 193
Unix Tutorial and Command Reference	p. 195
Password Tutorial	p. 205
Index	p. 207
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