The CGI/Perl Cookbook
Patchett & Wright
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is the way you interface software
to HTML and your web server. This book is a very good introduction to
those wanting to use Perl for the task. One of the authors, Matt
Wright, is famous for his archive of free scripts written in Perl and
the book builds on this material. It includes a CD-ROM with over
10,000 lines of Perl code that give you a large number of complete
scripts and some useful subroutines with line by line explanations of
each.
With this book you will be adding complex functions to your
server/site very quickly (once you know a little Perl) and by the time
you've finished with this book you will be able to write exceptionally
powerful CGI scripts. The only downside is a small number of typos in
the example scripts but I found them easily fixed. There is also a web
site with fixed and upgraded copies of the examples and an email list
for installing and modifying the examples. I would recommend this book
to everyone.
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