hey! I quite liked the Castro book... probably not for what it said on the title (CGI Programming), but as a gentle intro to Perl, it was super... :)
Deen On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Matt C. wrote: > Be careful -- there are a ton of cgi scripts out there that are no good > (and an entire book by Elizabeth Castro, "Perl and CGI for the World > Wide Web). > > If you're using perl for cgi, it's pretty much mandatory from a > practical standpoint to use the fantastic CGI module that ships with > your perl. It is easy to use and handles all of the CGI protocol for you > automatically. Use it and you'll be happy and more productive. Plus > you'll learn a great deal from it. I know I did, and still do. > > perldoc CGI will tell you how to use the module, and you'll find that > you'll be able to open your text file and print it out to a browser with > ease. Most servers will default to a type of "text/plain" or > "text/html", so you should be able to do something like this: > -- Deen Hameedd, Accidental Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
