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Perl for Web Site Management
book

Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Organization

Here’s a brief description of what you’ll find in each of this book’s chapters:

Chapter 1

Explains how to evaluate web-hosting providers, log into a Unix shell session, use some basic shell commands, and locate a suitable editor for creating text files.

Chapter 2

Introduces the Perl programming language and explains how to run simple Perl scripts, including an overview of Unix file permissions, Perl variable types, quoting operators, and an explanation of how to run Perl-based CGI scripts.

Chapter 3

Shows how to run a simple CGI script to bundle up the output of an HTML form and email it to an appropriate address.

Chapter 4

Gives an example of some simple Perl programming that can automate repeated editing changes to HTML documents.

Chapter 5

Demonstrates how to use Perl to take arbitrarily formatted source data (in this case, text prepared for publishing via a page layout program) and convert it into an in-memory data structure.

Chapter 6

Continuing the example from Chapter 5, shows how an in-memory data structure can be output as HTML files, producing a web-based directory of tradeshow exhibitors.

Chapter 7

Explains how to use regular expressions to construct patterns for matching and, optionally, changing strings of text.

Chapter 8

Shows how to use regular expressions to extract individual entries from a web server’s access log, incorporating them into an in-memory data structure for later output.

Chapter 9

Continuing the example from Chapter 8, discusses ...

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