Perl on the Web

Perl on the Web - module P221

One of the major uses of Perl is to provide a web interface to applications so that programs can be accessed via a browser. Such applications may be written in Perl, or Perl may simply be the glueware that's used.

This topic is presented on public courses Perl Programming, Perl Extra, Perl bootcamp

Examples from our training material

demo.pl	First cgi program - read and echos form content
echo.htp	Form / template to go with echo.pl demo
echo.pl	Web basics - echo form content
job3.pl	Select, display, edit job opportunities application
letterlinks.pl	Perl on the web - simple file lookup
loganal.pl	Full cgi example - log file analysis
nice.htp	Template file for log analysis application
samform.html	Sample form for an CGI script
sdo2.pl	Multiple page Perl / CGI application
tabfeed.pl	Display list of SQL tables and/or table content on a web page
templ.htp	Template for sdo2.pl Perl / CGI demo

Opentalk forum discussions related to this topic

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Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from http://www.training-notes.co.uk.

Topics covered in this module

The HTML form.
Input from the form into a Perl program - URL encoding.
Output from Perl back to the browser - headers, etc.
Overview of what you can do with CGI.
Example application - web log file analysis

Course links

The following web pages are used as references / examples in this module

[Link] Google Search: text file and php
(at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=text+file+and+php)

We check these links from time to time with a spider written in PHP. Latest full check was on Saturday, 12th June 2004. Titles are extracted from the web pages listed.

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