Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Professional

by Steve Suehring

Overview

* Avoids proof-of-concept examples in favor of teaching readers how to produce well-coded secure CGI applications that will stand up to the demands of being placed into the potentially hostile environment of the Internet.

* Takes a holistic approach to web application development and includes instruction on how to use ancillary programs such as Mason and Nagios that the reader will need to be familiar with in order to progress.

* The book’s comprehensive scope tackles all the areas of Perl web application development the reader is likely to need in creating their first web applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590595312
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/07/2005
Series:	Beginning: from Novice to Professional Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Steve Suehring is the security editor for LinuxWorld Magazine. He has written articles for Linux Magazine and authored a book titled MySQL. Suehring has also edited a number of titles on Linux and open source software. He has been working with closed and open source software for a number of years.

Table of Contents

• The CGI Module
• Popular CGI Modules
• Databases and Perl
• System Interaction
• LWP Modules
• Net:: Tools
• SOAP-Based Web Services
• Perl and RSS
• XML Parsing with Perl
• Apache and mod_perl
• Development with mod_perl
• The Template Toolkit
• Perl Web Sites with Mason