hcohen2 wrote:
Recently I jumped in to the list and gave a correct answer, but unfortunately not really appropriate answer to the question asked. I took the 'Beginners' adjective for this list too seriously.
Hence, to keep myself out of trouble, I think it is time to get another book on CGI for perl to study this topic in greater depth. I have been spending time in a book store and researching further using Google and I have run across a title that may be appropriate. The title is: "CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the WWW" and is a 2004 publication. The first 6 chapters are on line, so I can get some idea of the book's value by going through those chapters. However, there is a reader's review of the first edition that seems to ring true and, moreover, is not complimentary. That reader maintains the first 40 pages are good, but due to the choice of using the CGI package only modestly devalues the contents. The other four reviewers were much more taken with this book.
I wonder has anyone here read this title and would they be willing to give an evaluation, having someone in mind that has only had a brief introduction to perl's cgi scripting?
TIA
I would echo Chris' remarks about mod_perl, and the book not being worth its oats if it shys away from using CGI.pm. Personally I would skip *all* of the CGI books, and get a good book on Perl itself. Learn the language not how to use it for a specific task. This will serve you in everything you do much better in the long run, then once you have learned Perl basics, it should be trivial to read any module's documentation to absorb the API and apply it. CGI.pm has excellent docs, as do some of the other CGI helping tools, such as the various template systems, and modules like CGI::Application. This path will also serve you well when it comes time to learn DBI for your database access, or any other module you need for core logic. There are also excellent free online tutorials to teach you basic CGI programming, Ovid's comes highly endorsed (google). CGI just isn't that difficult, -> print a header, maybe include a cookie or two, do a redirect, that's about it, the rest is just time and experience.
The two books I would suggest are Learning Perl and its sequence Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules. I give comments about them as well as other Perl books on my site.
Good luck,
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