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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.2762
EAN: 9780201710144
ISBN: 0201710145
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 560
Publication Date: February 25, 2001
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Product Description:
Writing CGI Applications with Perl is a start-to-finish guide to accomplishing key Web development tasks by fully using the power of Perl and CGI together. Using extensive examples, careful line-by-line explanations, and skill-stretching exercises, it not only provides useful cut-and-paste code: it also teaches the practical skills and techniques you'll need to build virtually any CGI-based application. Kevin Meltzer and Brent Michalski cover every key area of Web application development with Perl: database integration, form and file handling, security, e-mail, graphics, and more. The book's in-depth coverage includes: working with HTML Web forms and obtaining user input; placing cookies and tracking clicks; connecting to POP3 e-mail servers; embedding Perl in HTML using HTML::Mason; remote file management across the Web; creating dynamic images; and working with XML. The book also provides detailed explanations and examples of working with Perl DBI, as well as start-to-finish coverage of configuring and using the popular mod_perl Apache module. All of the sample code will be available at a companion web site.
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This was a little conplex and not easy to follow, as some reviews said.
I'd look at another.
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This is a fantastic book! It is best for people who already know Perl and have written basic CGI scripts and now wish to write full-blown applications.
The attraction of this book is simple: there are countless sources that teach you how to write a CGI "page" -- a single script that has a couple states. But it turns out that writing CGI-based "applications" are much harder.
This is one of the rare books that discusses the architecting of CGI-based *applications* including the full source of a very interesting content management application. As such, this book is virtually unique among the dozens of others books. It is not perfect and I keep hoping that the authors will come out with an updated edition. But for all that, it remains unparalleled.
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I bought this book because the Amazon reviewers loved it so much. I got about 150 pages into it and now I need to buy a different book. This book is good for people who really really like to learn by rote. The authors cover interesting and important topics, but they don't explain them well. They don't even try to outline the purpose of a script before coding it. They also introduce functions that are new to the reader somewhere in the middle of a script. They never write, "This is function x. It can be used like this... Here is an example...."
They just start coding without any introduction except for some stupid jokes.
That said, if you already know a buttload of Perl and DBI and CGI programming, you might like this book for the examples.
Also, there were way too many errors in the text and the code, and that makes it even harder to learn.
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I read the raving previous reviews and thought this would be the CGI book for me. It wasn't. I know a bit of perl, but relatively little about cgi (I know a bit, but not much). Here are my comments:
Good things:
- I thought most of the example programs in the text were good and illustrated the points being made.
- I liked the discussion on taint
Bad points:
- I thought the examples were somewhat random and did not give me tools to attack general problems.
- I would have liked a better description of cgi.pm (perhaps I should get Lincoln Stein's book)
- I did not like the line by line format of the code. I found this very distracting and redundant. I would have preferred seeing the code and then having the authors describe the main points of the code (instead of all the trivial comments inbetween all the lines).
- I did not like the dependence on databases. Perhaps this is something most serious cgi programmers use, but storing my ... Read More
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This is an extremely useful book for writing web-based applications with Perl. Lots of helpful descriptions and examples. Useful for beginners to familiarize themselves with a wide range of necessary terms and topics. For example, I found the chapters on mod_perl and dbi very helpful. Also useful for more experienced CGI programmers because of the useful examples and techniques presented.
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