Hi! On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 04:16:28PM +0530, nasar.sherieff wrote: > Thanks. my doubt is can't I understand modperl after just learning a > documentation on cgi. It will safe my time to directly going to modperl. > how will you justify this.
Developming mod_perl applications is quite different from plain old CGI stuff, so you cannot really take your CGI-knowledge and us it as-is to do mod_perl stuff (cf: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html for a short list of common pitfalls). mod_perl also provides more interesting features than CGI (access to the Apache API, Auth stuff etc) IMO, while it a basic understanding of CGI helps you when starting mod_perl (especially the non-persistent nature of http), it is not strictly needed. IMO, you should grab some good books http://perl.apache.org/docs/offsite/books.html (especially "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" provides some rather good general introduction to Web Development) and read them. -- #!/usr/bin/perl http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/} -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html
