Beginning Web Development with Perl: From Novice to Professional

✍ Scribed by Steve Suehring (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 360
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Professional introduces you to the world of Perl Internet application development. This book tackles all areas crucial to developing your first web applications and includes a powerful combination of real-world examples coupled with advice. Topics range from serving and consuming RSS feeds, to monitoring Internet servers, to interfacing with e-mail. You'll learn how to use Perl with ancillary packages like Mason and Nagios.

Though not version-specific, this book is an ideal read if you have had some grounding in Perl basics and now want to move into the world of web application development. Author Steve Suehring emphasizes the security implications of Perl, drawing on years of experience teaching readers how to think safe, avoid common pitfalls, and produce well-planned, secure code.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The CGI Module....Pages 3-34
Popular CGI Modules....Pages 35-47
Databases and Perl....Pages 49-72
System Interaction....Pages 73-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
LWP Modules....Pages 89-105
Net:: Tools....Pages 107-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
SOAP-Based Web Services....Pages 137-152
Perl and RSS....Pages 153-163
XML Parsing with Perl....Pages 165-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Apache and mod_perl....Pages 183-200
Development with mod_perl....Pages 201-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Template Toolkit....Pages 233-262
Perl Web Sites with Mason....Pages 263-281
Back Matter....Pages 283-353

✦ Subjects

Programming Techniques