Description

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 & Easy® 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!

Features

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started
2. Taking Your First Steps with Perl
3. Perl Data Types: Scalars
4. Operators
5. Array
6. Hashes
7. Program Flow
8. Perl Functions
9. A Diversion: HTML
10. CGI Programming
11. CGI: Making the Connection
12. Using Files in Perl
13. Sending E-mail in Perl
14. Using Perl with Databases
15. Another Diversion: JavaScript
16. The CGI.pm Module
17. Case Study: A Contact Database
Appendix A: More Perl Functions
Appendix B: Web Site Resources

Author Bio

Leslie Bate
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 as a senior analyst programmer.

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