Perl CGI Programming
Experienced HTML authors, Webmaster, and Intranet programmers will find this book one of the fastest ways to learn CGI programming. Topics include catalog, search engine, order forms, database referencing, and user feedback scripts. Real world examples emphasize creating forms and user-driven, interactive Web sites. Topics include: Introducing Perl and CGI; Bringing Perl to the World Wide Web; Connecting Perl to the World Wide Web; Using Perl and CGI in the Real World; Creating Real-World HTML Forms with Perl and CGI; Perl and the Complex Web Page; Creating a Guest Book for Your Web Site; Creating Dynamic Web Pages: More Tools; Monitoring Web Site Activity; The Language of the Web; Platforms on the World Wide Web; Advanced Perl-CGI Tricks; Security on Your Web Site. Perl CGI Programming also includes a few appendixes: Appendix A Perl Standard Library Reference; Appendix B A Brief History of the Internet. Also included is a Perl Glossary.
- Cost: $28.95
- Pages: 512
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 0782121578
Perl Complete Reference
Learn all you need to know about Perl from this definitive, hands-on reference. Perl expert Martin Brown will walk you through everything--from the basics of writing your first script and understanding Perl's syntax to the complexities of processing data, communicating with external databases, and communicating over the Web. Along the way, you'll learn how to network, design user interfaces, and write scripts that work under UNIX, Windows, and MacOS. Also covers how to interface to an external C library and embed the Perl interpreter into your C programs. For building, developing, and fine-tuning robust Perl applications, you'll want this thorough guide! Master Perl basics; Learn to create your code with subroutines, packages and modules; Communicate with external files, databases and other machines over your network; Work with XML, HTML, and generate Web scripts to solve your problems; Create cross-platform compatible user interface solutions.
- Cost: $49.99
- Pages: 1207
- Edition: 2nd edition
- ISBN: 0072129506
Perl Cookbook
The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. You'll find hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl "recipes" for manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes; reading, writing, and updating text and binary files; pattern matching and text substitutions; references, data structures, objects, and classes; signals and exceptions; accessing text, hashes, and SQL databases; screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications; writing secure scripts; client-server programming; cgi programming and web automation, and much more. The Perl Cookbook is the long awaited companion volume to Programming Perl.
- Cost: $27.97
- Pages: 794
- Edition: 1st Edition
- ISBN: 1565922433
Perl Core Language
This book is one of the most practical and concise guides available for Perl programming. It includes step-by-step solutions on object-oriented programming in Perl. It provides highly referenceable, task-oriented answers to scripting with Perl. Numerous immediate solutions are provided with field tested examples to help Web developers quickly solve problems. Steven Holzner (Cambridge, MA) is a former contributing editor for PC Magazine and has authored more than 60 books ranging in subject from assembly language to C++.
- Cost: $17.49
- Pages: 500
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1932111425
Perl Database Programming Bible
In this authoritative reference, Perl expert Brent Michalski uses plenty of examples to help you master Perl's capabilities in database applications with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Along the way, he explores practical applications for cutting-edge technologies like XML and Web services. If you're a Perl novice, the comprehensive code samples and step-by-step explanations will have you writing database applications quickly and confidently. If you're experienced, this definitive guidebook has everything you need to move ahead with Web programming, problem tracking, automatic e-mail reports, and much more. Learn how to: Understand different database models, DBIs, and DBDs; Set up relational databases, retrieve information, and generate reports; Tie a Perl hash to a database and track users with cookies; Generate and deliver automatic e-mail reports; Use tied hashes to create Web-based shopping carts; Handle binary data and submit BLOB data.
- Cost: $31.50
- Pages: 700
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0764549561
Perl Debugged
Perl Debugged provides the expertise and solutions developers require for coding better, faster, and more reliably in Perl. Focusing on debugging, the most vexing aspect of programming in Perl, this example-rich reference and how-to guide minimizes development, troubleshooting, and maintenance time resulting in the creation of elegant and error-free Perl code. Designed for the novice to intermediate software developer, Perl Debugged will save the programmer time and frustration in debugging Perl programs. Based on the authors' extensive experience with the language, this book guides developers through the entire programming process, tackling the benefits, plights, and pitfalls of Perl programming. Beginning with a guided tour of the Perl documentation, the book progresses to debugging, testing, and performance issues, and also devotes a chapter to CGI programming in Perl. Topics include: CGI programming; Perl "gotchas"; Perl Antibugging.
- Cost: $2.98
- Pages: 288
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0201700549
Perl Developer's Dictionary
Perl Developer's Dictionary is a complete, well-organized reference to the Perl language and environment, including core syntax as well as Perl modules. Designed specifically for the experienced developer who needs a reference readily available on his or her desk to refer to on a daily basis, the book is extensively cross-referenced and indexed for optimal usability. In addition to providing a complete syntax reference for all core Perl functions, the book also provides quick access to language syntax, constructs, and other language issues. Each major section of the book is prefaced with a short introduction to provide background material on the subject at hand, and then is followed by a series of "dictionary" entries that cover exactly one topic, carefully cross-referenced and indexed with the rest of the book. Written for programmers familiar with Perl, this reference book describes commands and modules available in version 5.6 of the language.
- Cost: $27.99
- Pages: 640
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 0672320673
Perl Developer's Guide
Of the multitude of languages available, Perl has emerged as the language of choice for Internet programmers and Web developers. In fact, over sixty-five percent of all dynamic Web pages are created using this platform-independent language. Perl Developer's Guide offers complete guidance for professional programmers wanting to create powerful Perl applications and develop robust Web sites. This requisite sourcebook covers it all: basic, syntax, references, regular expressions, flow control, in-depth object-oriented Perl, and much more. Master Perl as a programming language, with tons of explicit, relevant examples. Master the Perl programming environment (including profilers, debuggers, and the compiler) Develop reusable modules for both Windows NT and UNIX Develop and debug CGI applications, and add database backends to your CGI scripts Leverage existing Perl scripts and put CGI front ends onto them. Get familiar with free-to-use Perl APIs.
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 912
- Edition: Bk&Cd-Rom edition
- ISBN: B00007FYBF
Perl Fast & Easy Web Development
Don't spend your time wading through manuals to learn Perl. Spend it doing what you do best creating Web pages! Perl is quickly developed and results-oriented. With this book, you'll move seamlessly from the basics of this language to building dynamic Web sites. Combining easy-to-understand instructions with visual examples, Perl Fast & EasyŽ Web Development offers a unique, hands-on approach to this popular programming language that you won't find anywhere else. Less time, less effort, more results. Learn to use Perl data types; Understand program flow in Perl; Make the connection with CGI; Manipulate files, databases and email with Perl; Learn the basics of HTML and JavaScript. Leslie W. Bate is a Web developer at Computer Sciences Corporation working on the British Aerospace UK contract. At CSC, he writes applications in various languages and provides support for peers and Web authors. He has also worked for British Aerospace.
- Cost: $29.99
- Pages: 450
- Edition: paperback
- ISBN: 1931841179
Perl for C Programmers
The Perl book written for the C and C++ programmer. Perl for C Programmers teaches what's similar and different between Perl and C/C++ and how to then utilize Perl to the fullest. 80% of the people who start using Perl for the first time come with a background in the C or C++ programming language. This book is written for those people. Perl is becoming one of the most common languages used in web development because of its powerful ability for text manipulation. There is a large need for Perl books that clearly explain how to use Perl in terms the reader can understand. The primary audience coming to learn Perl is C and C++ programmers. Topics include: CPAN (The Module Archive); Installing Modules; Using the Perl Debugger; Simple I/O; Looping Statements; Variable Declarations and Simple Expressions; Multiple Dimension Arrays; The split and join Functions; The splice Function; The grep Function; Basic Regular Expressions; Hashes; Perl Packages.
- Cost: $34.99
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st edition
- ISBN: 073571228X
