On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 10:36 US/Pacific, Bill Teschek wrote: [..]
I'm not sure what else I need to do to get perl to work on our website. Also,[..]
we had an older version of perl installed at d:\website\perl by a previous
administrator, and I'm not sure if there is going to be some kind of a conflict
between the two.
I need to learn how to get perl activated and working. Once that is done I can
proceed on my own to learn how to write and edit scripts. Is there someone else
out there who be interested in a bit of hand-holding today while I get this
going?
Bill,
first things first - Active Perl is a Real Perl, the fine folks at activeState have done a lot of good work getting it to run in the Windows Environment.
It sounds like you are totally new to both perl, coding, and web stuff. So my general references on the basic books you will want along the way is up at
<http://www.wetware.com/drieux/CS/Proj/TPFH/gen_doc.html>
Getting a feel for Perl itself is best done with something like the Learning Perl book. You will of course want something like the Learning Perl in WIN32
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperlwin/>
that should help you over the Perl Side of the problem.
Which is the first part of your problem - how to feel at home with coding perl. The next part of the problem is understanding CGI. The Common Gateway Interface - this is mostly not that complex - since it is basically the 'things the web-server will pass to my code, and what I have to send back to it'.
If you already understand
perldoc perl
that you can use to read perl's own 'online documentation' you will of course be able to specifically check out the documentation for the Perl Module CGI
perldoc CGI
This will of course help you into the real problem which is the HTML/XHTML standards debates - what sort of web page are you trying to present, and what really goes into 'web page design'.
HTH.
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