A complete guide to creating interactive Web pages using the Perl CGI.pm library from its creator. Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm contains all the information about CGI.pm found in Perl's online manual, but in a completely reorganized and greatly expanded format. It also includes valuable labor-saving tips and hints you won't find anywhere else. Featuring step-by-step instructions and complete source code, it shows you how to: * Download, install, and configure CGI.pm * Generate HTML documents on the fly * Process fill-out forms and create multipage documents * Perform script debugging and state maintenance * Design interactive clickable image maps * Store and process cookies * Attach JavaScript and cascading style sheets to your documents * Write state-maintaining scripts * Modify and extend CGI.pm * Tap the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit the companion Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/stein On the Web site you'll find: * The most recent and all future revisions to the CGI.pm module * All the source code examples from the book * Online documentation for CGI.pm * Links to CPAN and other Web-related software written by the author. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

Stein Official Guide to Programming CGI

Computers & Technology

Stein, Lincoln

Web Development & Design

John Wiley&Sons

In spite of all the power built into popular web utilities, the informality, ease, and rapid development cycle of scripting languages make them well suited to the constant change common to most web sites.Scripting Languages: Automating the Web guides users and developers in choosing and deploying scripting solutions. End users benefit from client-side scripting to make pages livelier, to automate form-filling, and to accelerate web user interfaces like live select-box widgets. Even the most basic web server software has scripting gateways to create more active web content. Server-side includes and markup allow servers to customize pages on-the-fly. Common Gateway Interface (CGI) hooks allow developers to create entire pages and graphics under program control.This issue of the World Wide Web Journal explores how users can add scriptable and extensible behavior to the Web in a variety of ways. For example, within the web client user interface, we offer articles on JavaScript (Nick Heinle), Python (Guido van Rossum), and VBScript (Paul Lomax). Next, within the web server programming interface, see Lincoln Stein's article on exploring CGI with Perl, Ron Petrusha's "Why WIN-CGI?", and Clint Wong's description of LWP -- the library modules for WWW access in Perl. Finally, as a back-end gateway to other services, are articles on World Wide Web gateways (Shishir Gundavaram) and web database connectivity with scripting (Peter Lazar).In addition, this issue examines the web-wide impact of Perl as the scripting language of choice for webmasters everywhere, with an in-depth article featuring Perl developers Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen.

Scripting Languages: Automating the Web: World Wide Web Journal: Volume 2, Issue 2

Gundavaram, Shishir

Petrusha,Ron

Wong, Clinton

al., et.

Programming Languages

O'Reilly Media

Apache is the most popular web server on the Internet because it is free, reliable, and extensible. The availability of the source code and the modular design of Apache makes it possible to extend web server functionality through the Apache API.For the most part, however, the Apache API has only been available to C programmers, and requires rebuilding the Apache server from source. mod_perl, the popular Apache module used primarily for enhanced CGI performance, changed all that by making the Apache API available to Perl programmers. With mod_perl, it becomes simple to develop Apache modules with Perl and install them without having to rebuild the web server.Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C shows how to extend web server capabilities regardless of whether the programming language is Perl or C. The book explains the design of Apache, mod_perl, and the Apache API. It then demonstrates how to use them to perform for tasks like the following:
<ul>
<li>Rewriting CGI scripts as Apache modules to vastly improve performance</li>
<li>Server-side filtering of HTML documents, to embed special markup or code (much like SSI)</li>
<li>Enhancing server log functionality</li>
<li>Converting file formats on the fly</li>
<li>Implementing dynamic navigation bars</li>
<li>Incorporating database access into CGI scripts</li>
<li>Customizing access control and authorization to block robots or to use an external database for passwords</li>
</ul>The authors are Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. Lincoln is the successful author of How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide web Site and the developer of the widely used Perl CGI.pm module. Doug is a consultant and the creator of the innovative mod_perl Apache module.

Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C: The Apache API and mod_perl

MacEachern, Doug

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