Table of Contents

Introduction.


1. Perl on the Web.
About Perl. Server Versus Browser. Perl and CGI. What's in Store. What's Up Next.

2. Getting Ready to Design with Perl.
Skills You'll Want. Tools You'll Need. Web Browser. Serving It Up. Moving Right Along.

3. Scripting Basics.
Checking for Perl on Your Server. Understanding File Types. Creating File Directories. About the CGI Directory. Setting Up a Perl Script Directory. Making a Perl Module Library. Setting File Permissions. All About CPAN. Getting Modules from CPAN. Using the CPAN Module to Get Modules from CPAN. What's Up Next.

4. Working with Forms.
A Simple Gateway Script. Modifying the Script. Forms (Only) a Programmer Could Love. A Better Form Script. Modifying the Script. Creating a Guestbook. The Classic Mailto Form. In Greater Detail: Accuracy Checking in the Mailto Script. What's Up Next.

5. Features and Functions.
Adding Taint Checking. Keeping Time. Automating Pages by Day. Checking Links. Bug Checking. Validating Forms. What's Up Next.

6. Customizing Pages.
Detecting and Routing Browsers. Cookies. Advanced Guestbook with Cookies. Using Perl with SSI. What's Up Next.

7. Fun and Games.
Displaying Time. Hit Counter. User Poll. Hang That Man! What's Up Next.

8. Designing with Templates.
Setting Up Directories. Setting Up Text Files and Templates. Creating the Template CGI. Publishing Pages Using Modules. Publishing Utilities. Sending Pages via E-Mail. Publishing a Full Directory. What's Up Next.

9. Creating Your Own Portal.
Introduction to DBI. Adding the Modules. CGI. Utilities. What's Up Next.

10. Web Site Publishing Wizard.
What's Up Next.

11. Getting Ready to Learn Perl.
Arrays, Expressions, Scalars, Oh My! Seven Tips for Making Perl Fun. Resources You Want, Stuff You Need. All We Want to Do is Have Some Fun.

Index.

Promotional Information

Perl Web Site Workshop is aimed at Web designers and developers who want to add Perl-based CGI applications and functions to their Web sites using pre-fabricated scripts that can quickly and easily be customized to suit their needs. It teaches the reader how to adapt and customize scripts for forms, guestbooks, time displays, link checkers and debuggers, browser detectors, Cookies, hit counters, user polls, games, publishing templates, modules, and utilities, and portals.

About the Author

There is little doubt that in the world of Web design and development, Molly E. Holzschlag is one of the most vibrant personalities around. With twenty Web development book titles to her credit, Molly is also an engaging speaker and teacher, appearing regularly at such conferences as Comdex, Internet World, Web 2001, and Web Builder.

Honored as one of the Top 25 Women on the Web, Molly is an advisory board member to he World Organization of Webmasters, a member of the Web Standards Project, and spent a year as Executive Editor of WebReview.com. For more about MollyÕs books, articles, events, and Web-related activities, drop by (where else?) http://www.molly.com/.

Jason Pellerin is Senior Web Applications Developer at Playboy.com, which involves far less nudity, and far more Perl, than you might think. Before that, he was the SysAdmin at the late, lamented Bungie Software, where he was responsible for keeping the online carnage humming on bungie.net, and selling inappropriate t-shirts to minors through the Bungie Store. Jason has a BA in philosophy from Yale University, two cats, and a strange affection for cursed baseball teams.