Perl for Web Site Management

John Callender

508 pages, parution le 28/03/2002

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Résumé

Checking links, batch editing HTML files, tracking users, and writing CGI scripts—these are the often tedious daily tasks that can be done much more easily with Perl, the scripting language that runs on almost all computing platforms. If you're more interested in streamlining your web activities than in learning a new programming language, Perl for Web Site Management is for you: it's not so much about learning Perl as it is about using Perl to do common web chores more efficiently.

The secret is that, although becoming a Perl expert may be hard, most Perl scripts are relatively simple. Using Perl and other open source tools, you'll learn how to:

Incorporate a simple search engine
Write a simple CGI gateway
Convert multiple text files into HTML
Monitor log files
Track users as they navigate your site

Even if you don't have any programming background, this book will get you quickly past Perl's seemingly forbidding barrier of chops and chomps, execs and elsifs. You'll be able to put an end to using clunky tools, editing files tediously by hand, or relying on programmers and system administrators to do "the hard stuff" for you. Sure, you might learn a little bit about programming as well, and perhaps something about the role of open source tools on the Web. But the purpose of Perl for Web Site Management isn't to educate you—it's to empower you. Whether you're a developer, a designer, or simply a dabbler on the Web, this book is the plain-English, hands-on introduction to Perl you've been waiting for.

Contents

Preface

1 Getting Your Tools in Order 1
2 Getting Started with Perl 26
3 Running a Form-to-Email Gateway 51
4 Power Editing with Perl 74
5 Parsing Text Files 98
6 Generating HTML 135
7 Regular Expressions Demystified 167
8 Parsing Web Access Logs 180
9 Date Arithmetic 199
10 Generating a Web Access Report 208
11 Link Checking 245
12 Running a CGI Guestbook 291
13 Running a CGI Search Tool 310
14 Using HTML Templates 326
15 Generating Links 344
16 Writing Perl Modules 365
17 Adding Pages via CGI Script 376
18 Monitoring Search Engine Positioning 403
19 Keeping Track of Users 420
20 Storing Data in DBM Files 458
21 Where to Go Next 479

Index 488

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	John Callender
Parution	28/03/2002
Nb. de pages	508
Format	18 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	753g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781565926479
ISBN13	978-1-56592-647-9