Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web or Ruby Cookbook

Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide

Author: Elizabeth Castro

Perl is one of the most popular scripting languages for adding powerful interactive features to Web pages. Perl lets you place forms on your site that collect and process user input such as comments and product orders; enables visitors to search for information; and can integrate a database into your site, among its many other capabilities. Perl and CGI for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide fully revised and updated since its original 1998 release, gets users to the core of CGI scripting with Perl. Even first-time programmers will be able to create useful, workable scripts from scratch, or adapt and customize existing scripts to their own needs. Hundreds of screen shots and clear, easy-to-understand directions make this the perfect Perl book for beginners, as well as a handy reference for those with previous programming experience.

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New edition of a resource that shows how to create useful new scripts or adapt existing ones to individual needs. Castro (author of several books about the Web) tells how to set up and install a local server in order to learn Perl and test scripts without signing up with a commercial Web host; place forms on Web sites that collect and process user input such as product orders and comments; use CGI.pm, the standard Perl module for analyzing incoming form data; and how to debug and use security techniques. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	Introduction	13
Ch. 2	Perl Building Blocks	23
Ch. 3	About Servers, Perl, and CGI.pm	41
Ch. 4	Running Perl CGI on a Unix Server	49
Ch. 5	Testing Scripts Locally on Windows	59
Ch. 6	Testing Scripts Locally on the Mac	71
Ch. 7	Getting Data from Visitors	83
Ch. 8	Environment Variables	99
Ch. 9	Getting Data into the Script	103
Ch. 10	Simple Operations with Scalars	109
Ch. 11	Conditionals and Loops	121
Ch. 12	Working with Arrays	139
Ch. 13	Subroutines	157
Ch. 14	Working with Hashes	167
Ch. 15	Analyzing Data	181
Ch. 16	Remembering What Visitors Tell You	205
Ch. 17	Formatting, Printing, and HTML	221
Ch. 18	Security	237
Ch. 19	Files and Directories	247
Ch. 20	Uploading Files	269
	App. A: Debugging	277
	App. B: Using Other Folks' Scripts	285
	App. C: Permissions on Unix	291
	App. D: Unix Essentials	295
	App. E: Perl and CGI Resources	309
	Index	315

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Ruby Cookbook

Author: Lucas Carlson

With the introduction of Ruby on Rails, the hot new web development framework, the Ruby scripting language has been a rising star among programmers over the past year. This new book -- written in the tradition of our highly successful Perl, Python, and Java cookbook titles -- covers all aspects of the language, from the basics to more advanced issues, so that programmers of any level can learn by example and improve their Ruby development skills.
Not only does a large section of the "Ruby Cookbook" deal with Ruby on Rails, there are also plenty of hands-on recipes for a variety of other projects using the language, including system administration, building applications with the Rake build tool, working with databases and persistence, and writing extensions to Ruby. This problem-solving cookbook sets the standard for Ruby in a variety of programming environments.