Open Source Web Development with LAMP: Using Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP

Table of Contents

1. Copyright
2. Foreword
3. Preface
4. Acknowledgments
5. About the Authors
6. Introduction
7. Structural
   1. The Web Explained
      1. How It Works
      2. What We Don’t Talk About
      3. Security
      4. Summary
      5. Resources
   2. Linux—The Choice of a GNU Generation
      1. Introduction
      2. Basic Unix
      3. Summary
      4. Resources
   3. Apache Web Server
      1. Introduction
      2. Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Apache
      3. Configuration
      4. Securing Apache
      5. Create the Web Site
      6. Apache Log Files
      7. Summary
      8. Resources
   4. Perl
      1. Introduction
      2. Perl Documentation
      3. Perl Syntax Rules
      4. A Quick Introduction To Object-Oriented Programming
      5. What We Didn’t Talk About
      6. Summary
      7. Resources
   5. MySQL
      1. Introduction
      2. Tutorial
      3. Database Independent Interface
      4. Table Joins
      5. Loading and Dumping a Database
      6. Summary
      7. Resources
8. Static
   1. Website META Language
      1. Introduction
      2. Installation
      3. The Basics
      4. Creating a Template
      5. Other Helpful Includes
      6. Diversion
      7. A Better Template
      8. Configuring WML with .wmlrc
      9. Macros—Creating Custom Tags
      10. Programming Code—eperl
      11. Project
      12. Summary
9. Dynamic
   1. The Common Gateway Interface
      1. Introduction
      2. Apache Configuration
      3. A First CGI Program
      4. What Can Go Wrong?
      5. CGI.pm Introduced
      6. CGI.pm HTML Shortcuts
      7. Information Received by the CGI Program
      8. Form Widget Methods
      9. CGI Security Considerations
      10. A Note About die()
      11. Project—CGI/MySQL/DBI
      12. Summary
      13. Resources
   2. mod_perl
      1. Introduction
      2. Configuration
      3. Turning CGIs Into mod_perl Programs
      4. Pure mod_perl Programming
      5. Project: MySQL, DBI, and mod_perl
      6. Other Stuff You Can Do
      7. Summary
      8. Resources
10. Embedded
    1. Server Side Includes
       1. Introduction
       2. Security Considerations
       3. Summary
       4. Resources
    2. Embperl (HTML::Embperl)
       1. Introduction
       2. Installing Embperl
       3. Apache Configuration
       4. A Quick Example
       5. Embperl Commands
       6. Posted Data and %fdat
       7. Other Embperl Variables—$row and $col
       8. Embperl Project
       9. What We Didn’t Talk About
       10. Summary
       11. Resources
    3. Mason (HTML::Mason)
       1. Introduction
       2. Installation
       3. Apache Configuration
       4. A Quick Example
       5. Inline Perl Sections
       6. Handling Posted Data with %ARGS and <%args>
       7. Mason Components
       8. Mason Project
       9. What We Didn’t Talk About
       10. Summary
       11. Resources
    4. PHP
       1. Introduction
       2. Embedding PHP Into HTML
       3. Configuration
       4. A Couple of Quick Examples
       5. Language Syntax
       6. Built-In PHP Functions
       7. PHP and MySQL
       8. Project
       9. Summary
       10. Resources
    5. Bibliography