On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, hcohen2 wrote: > [...] "CGI Programming 101: Programming Perl for the WWW" and is a 2004 > publication. The first 6 chapters are on line, so I can get some idea > of the book's value by going through those chapters.
...and the URL for that is... ? Here? <http://www.cgi101.com/book/> > However, there is a reader's review of the first edition that seems to > ring true and, moreover, is not complimentary. ...and the URL for that is... ? Here? <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0966942604> > That reader maintains the first 40 pages are good, but due to the > choice of using the CGI package only modestly devalues the contents. > The other four reviewers were much more taken with this book. Well, I'm not sure about that -- there's not really anything wrong with using the CGI module for CGI scripts, and indeed there's a lot to be said for letting it do as much of the heavy lifting as possible. You may want to look at the _Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm_, which was written by Lincoln Stein -- the author of CGI.pm itself: <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471247448/> <http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/stein/> The book is, if nothing else, definitive. If you really want to get into things though, CGI really isn't the best way to go. Sites developed with mod_perl can be much faster, can handle much more traffic, and you have a lot more control over what happens -- you can, in fact, control just about everything Apache does. Learning mod_perl can be much more daunting than CGI -- hence the continuing popularity of CGI over mod_perl for new learners -- but in the long run it would be much more useful to understand mod_perl. Among the books that explain mod_perl (and Apache) are: * _Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C_ ("the eagle book") <http://modperl.com:9000/> Several chapters are available online * _Practical mod_perl_ <http://modperlbook.org/> Chapter 6, "Coding with mod_perl in Mind", is online * _mod_perl Developer's Cookbook_ <http://www.modperlcookbook.org/> Several chapters are available online * The mod_perl guide -- an online reference <http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/> (main guide) <http://bulknews.net/lib/mod_perl_guide/help.html> (supplements) These give a decent overview of the documentation available. If you really want to learn this stuff well, mod_perl is the way to go. -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
