Skip to Content
Perl for Web Site Management
book

Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Perl for Web Site Management

The CyberFair Site’s Architecture

The architecture that our site’s design team had worked out looked something like the diagram in Figure 15-1. Besides a few top-level pages, the bulk of the site was to consist of two kinds of pages: leader profiles, grouped into a number of categories (like “Government,” “School,” etc.), and student pages, grouped according to classroom.

Site architecture for the CyberFair entry

Figure 15-1. Site architecture for the CyberFair entry

So, in terms of automatically generated links, we needed to produce the following:

  • Links from the “who made this site” page to each classroom page

  • Links from each classroom page to each student page for that classroom

  • Links from each student page to the classroom page for that class

  • Links from each student’s page to any leader pages that the student was involved in creating

  • Links from each leader category page to the leader pages that fell under that category

  • Links from each leader page to the category page that the leader fell under

  • Links from each leader page to the pages of the students who were involved in creating it

To generate those links, the make_cf.plx script needed to traverse the site’s pages twice: once to read all the pages and build up a data structure based on their metainformation, and the second time to rewrite each page with links to all the other pages in the structure.

Example 15-1 gives an updated version of make_cf.plx that can do that. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Web Client Programming with Perl

Web Client Programming with Perl

Clinton Wong
Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason

Ken Williams, Dave Rolsky

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 1565926471Catalog PageErrata