Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals [Paperback]

Micah Brown (Author), Dan Livingston (Author), Chris Bellew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 24, 1999 | Series: Essential Series for Web Professionals

PERL lets you streamline or automate virtually any Web development task. Now, learn PERL fast, as you build two Web sites that reflect today's most common scenarios: a company selling products and educating visitors; and a content site selling ads and subscriptions. The finished sites are on the Web, so you can reuse the code -- and see how your pages should look, and work! Use PERL to read and write files; send email; search the Web; implement counters; authenticate users; rotate banners; deploy forms; and much more. Essential PERL for Web Programmers is one in a new series of books that share the same dynamic Web site, and can teach you all the Web skills you need, from JavaScript to Photoshop -- fast!

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From the Back Cover

With PERL 5, you can streamline or automate virtually any Web development task! Now you can learn PERL 5, by example, from two leading Fortune 500 Web developers! Master all you need to get results, as you build real-world practice sites that sell products, educate visitors, offer subscriptions, and display ads. Best of all, the finished sites are on the Web—so you can reuse the code and see exactly how your pages should look and work!

Write PERL scripts to do all this, and much more!

* Read and write files
* Send email automatically
* Search the Web
* Add counters to your site
* Authenticate your users
* Rotate banners
* Process forms

Rely on Essential Guides for ALL the Web Skills You Need!

All these books share the same great format, and the same dynamic Web site. . .

so once you've used one, they're all a piece of cake!

* Essential CSS & DHTML for Web Professionals
* Essential PERL 5 for Web Professionals
* Essential Photoshop 5 for Web Professionals
* Essential JavaScript for Web Professionals
* With more to come!

About the Author

Micah Brown co-owns Etail Enterprises, a Northern California Web advertising consultancy. Sites he has developed include Dr. Laura, Pacific Bell, and Ascend. Dan Livingston's high-profile Web design clients include Apple. Pacific Bell, and Novell. His sites have won numerous awards and been featured on CNN Prime Time. Chris Bellow specializes in PERL, ASP, Tango and PHP. His clientele includes Hewlett-Packard, MacSys, and Pacific Bell.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1st edition (June 24, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130126535
• ISBN-13: 978-0130126535
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,555,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I Used This Book to Teach Myself PERL/CGI For The WEB, December 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals (Paperback)

Excellent book for learning web-based PERL applications. The examples were concisely and fairly well explained. The appendix does a good job of elaborating in more detail. You probably will not like this book if you do not have a programming background. Also, you'll need a good PERL reference book as a companion. The book does not come with a CD ROM, so you'll have to type out the examples.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing about Perl *5* in this book!, September 24, 1999

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Dave Elliott - See all my reviews

This review is from: Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals (Paperback)

This is an OK beginner book on CGI and Perl, but why in the world did they title it "Perl 5 for..."? I'm proficient in Perl 4 and I assumed that this book would tell me all about working with objects and all the other new stuff in version 5. Seemed like a reasonable assumption based on the title. However, the only place that Perl 5 is even mentioned is on the cover!! As a general introduction to Perl and CGI, a much better book is "Visual Quickstart Guide to Perl and CGI" by Elizabeth Castro.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For diving into web CGI this is a MUST BUY, December 10, 1999

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Brian Donnelly (Tigard, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals (Paperback)

If you are interested in learning perl for web cgi functions this book rocks. Its the only one I have run into that gives examples of code and explains it line by line, in layman! The only reason I am giving it 4 stars is because I could have used a few more examples. The book is toooo short. I warn potental readers that this book does not go into great detail about the perl language itself (which is useful for much more than web CGI) but if you don't care about that and want to dive into making forms and interactive web pages you have to buy this book now!