Editorial Reviews:
ONCE YOU'VE CREATED a few Web pages and mastered the basics of HTML, you're ready for the next step -- using CGI scripts written in the language Perl to add interactivity, database access, forms processing, and the many other examples of high-power functionality you admire in the Web's premier sites. Now, in Web Programming SECRETS with HTML, CGI, and Perl, you'll find everything you ever wanted to know -- and probably a lot more -- about things like DNS administration, fax delivery and routing, mail server administration and use, Web-based HTML online editing, electronic commerce, price quote generation, and searching. Plus, on the book's bonus disk, you'll find complete Perl source code, ready-to-run CGI scripts, and invaluable utilities. Learn some of the hottest and most useful techniques that, until now, only experienced Webmasters had at their disposal! An expert team of authors shows you how to jack up Web server performance and teaches you the essential hows and whys of Web server development, administration, configuration, and management. Work extensively with a Perl-based form generator that simultaneously creates HTML forms while filling in the back-end CGI code. Bonus disk includes Perl source code, ready-to-run CGI programs, an HTML hotlist of Web resources, and many more Web-ready tools.
Customer Reviews:
 Not very informative; best for experienced coders
This book is a massive tome, but its informative contentis much lower than its weight suggests. Part of this isbecause the book pays too little attention to teaching the Perl it uses in its examples; it also comes from the use of other Unix tools like lex and sgmls that most beginners will not recognise. As a beginner's book, it's an exercise in frustration, but those who already know its subject matter should find the examples interesting starting points for their own CGI projects. For a good beginning text, try Thomas Boutell's CGI book (also available from amazon.com).
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