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If you have conquered HTML, you are ready to add interactivity to your Web pages with
Perl and CGI. The Web Wizard's Guide to Perl and CGI shows readers with no programming experience how to create dynamic Web pages with the power of Perl and CGI. From receiving Web form input to remembering user data between visits, this book will help you create well-designed Web sites.
Features:
- Describes the Perl and CGI development process including how to use FTP and Telnet.
- Shows how to receive, verify, and act on input from HTML forms.
- Demonstrates how to use CGI.pm functions to generate HTML, and receive CGI input.
- Teaches how to use input data files with CGI and Perl applications such as guest books, page counters, and product catalogs.
- Discusses how to create multiple page web applications such as surveys and checkout carts.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
- Scope of book
- What is CGI
- What is Perl
- Getting started
Chapter 2: Starting Your First Script
- Creating your first Perl scripts
- Getting your scripts going
Chapter 3: Some Programming and Perl Basics
- Generating HTML from Perl
- Numerical variables
- String variables
- Mathematical operations
- Conditional tests
- Simple sub-routines
Chapter 4: The Perl/Web Interface
- Non-form ways to start CGI
- Getting HTML input from forms
Chapter 5: Some Advanced Perl Statements
- Looping
- Advanced sub-routine usage
Chapter 6: Storing Data in Arrays
- What is an array?
- Manipulating data in arrays
- Hashes
Chapter 7: Using Perl to Work with Patterns
- Why pattern matching is important
- Splitting elements
- Pattern matching
- File I/O
Chapter 8: Using Multiple Page Forms that Share DATA
- Sharing information between screens
- Saving (and accessing) data on site visitor's PC
Appendix
- Using FTP to copy data to a server
- Using telnet to login
- Generating form elements without CGI.pm
- Compiled VS interpreted
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To order The Web Wizard's Guide to Perl and CGI, ask your bookstore for ISBN 0-201-76436-9.
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