Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide gets you to the heart of Perl scripting with CGI. Even first-time programmers will be able to create interactive Web pages and, more importantly, you'll be able to use your new-found familiarity with Perl to understand and customize the multitude of scripts that already exist on the Web. Following on the huge success of Liz Castro's top-selling HTML: Visual QuickStart Guide - the book to have to learn or reference HTML - Castro's Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide is soon to become the choice for learning Perl and CGI.

Table of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Perl Building Blocks

Chapter 2: Creating Perl CGI Scripts

Chapter 3: Getting Data from Visitors

Chapter 4: Environment Variables

Chapter 5: Getting Data into the Script

Chapter 6: Working with Scalars

Chapter 7: Working with Arrays

Chapter 8: Conditional Statements

Chapter 9: Subroutines

Chapter 10: Working with Hashes

Chapter 11: Analyzing Data

Chapter 12: Remembering What Your Visitors Tell You ...

Chapter 13: Printing and HTML

Chapter 14: Files and Directories

Chapter 15: Debugging

Chapter 16: Using other Folks Scripts

Appendix A: Parsing Form Input

Appendix B: Permissions

Appendix C: Security

Appendix D: Unix Essentials

Appendix E: Perl and CGI Resources

Index