About the Book
Perl programmers increasingly rely on the Web, online help, and other online information sources to solve technical problems. Version 3.0 of O'Reilly's "Perl CD Bookshelf" offers online access to favorite books from the CD-ROM drive. Included are the second edition of "Perl in a Nutshell" (paper back version included), the third editions of "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl", the "Perl Cookbook", and 3 new titles: "Perl &"; "XML, Perl &"; "LWP, and Mastering Perl/Tk". In addition to the reference material and tutorials in "Programming Perl" and "Learning Perl", many of the most popular for Perl are covered in these seven books. Many XML programmers are turning to Perl as a language for XML processing because of its text-processing features and the many powerful modules designed for XML development. LWP is the most downloaded Perl distribution in all of CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network). Perl/Tk is the most mature toolkit, has a wide community of experienced users, and is easy to use for building applications. Formatted in HTML, "The Perl CD Bookshelf" can be accessed with any Web browser. The books are fully searchable and cross-referenced.
In addition to individual indexes for each book, there is a master index for the entire library. With the CD Bookshelf, you get a complete Perl library that you can easily carry with you anywhere you need it.
Table of Contents:
Getting started: introduction to Perl - what's Perl good for?, Perl development, which platforms support Perl?, Perl resources; installing Perl - the CPAN architecture, how is CPAN organized?, installing Perl getting and installing modules, documentation. Language basics: the Perl executable - command processing, command-line options, environment variables, the Perl compiler, threads; the Perl language - program structure, data types and variables, statements, special variables, operators, regular expressions, subroutines, references and complex data structures, filehandles, signals, unicode formats, pod; function reference - Perl functions by category, Perl functions in alphabetical order; debugging - the Perl debugger, debugger commands, using the debugger, customizing the debugger, the Perl profiler, the Perl bug program. Modules: packages, modules, and objects - namespaces and packages, modules, object-oriented Perl, object syntax; standard modules. CGI: CGI overview - a typical CGI interaction, URL encoding, extra path information, CGI environment variables; the CGI.pm module - HTML Tag generation, importing method groups, maintaining state named parameters, using JavaScript features, debugging, CGI.pm reference; Web server programming with mod_perl - design of mod_perl, installing mod_perl., mod_perl handlers, running CGI scripts with mod_perl server-side, includes with mod_perl, , sections, Apache - modules; Databases - databases and Perl, DBM databases and DBM hashes, design of DBI, DBI methods, DBI environment variables; XML and SOAP; XML and Perl, XML parsing and validation; VI. XML and SOAP - XML and Perl, XML parsing and validation, XML - parser methods, expat handlers, XML - parser styles, expat encodings, XML - parser; SOAP - what is SOAP?, SOAP - lites, OAP - data, SOAP - serializer, SOAP - fault; network programming - sockets, built-in socket functions, the IO - socket module; email connectivity - the Net modules, the Mail modules; usenet news - the NNTP protocol, net - NNTP, the news - newsrc module; FTP - the FTP protocol, Net - FTP, FTP configuration with Net - Netrc; lightweight directory access with Net - LDAP; how data is stored in LDAP - searching an LDAP directory with Net - LDAP, adding an entry to the directory with Net - LDAP, Net - LDAP methods. (Part Contents)
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