Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72 EAN: 9781558514904 ISBN: 1558514902 Label: M & T Books Manufacturer: M & T Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 809 Publication Date: 1996-09 Publisher: M & T Books Sales Rank: 2344609 Studio: M & T Books
Editorial Review:
Product Description This book gives Internet programmers useful, professionally-written scripts to use on their Web pages and for customizing individual needs. It includes scripts for e-mail and searching HTML directories, a 'Fortune Cookie' generator, a message board system, and a CGI-based database, as well as an HTML Guestbook and electronic classified ads page. The CD-ROM contains two well known libraries for Perl 4 and 5, cgi-lib.pl and cgi.pm, and custom libraries created by the authors.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great Coverage Most Necessary Scripts
Great Book. Real World Scripts. Not an intro to Perl. Good coverage of some powerful scripts.
Best for use on Unix. Some work needed for use on NT. CD good, but check Selena's web site for the latest updates.
Rating: - Great for intermediate & above users
I think this book is more informational than practical. Although I've been able to successfully customize some of the CGI scripts, I've had a bear of a time relating to the procedures and found no help what so ever in the error or troubleshooting department. All in all the scripts in this book are extremely powerfull, just make sure you make time for deciphering!
Rating: - Not for NT servers
If you're running traditional UNIX web servers, you may find value in this book as it addresses many of the more common needs for CGI programming; however, if you're running on an NT web server, beware. Although the authors make an attempt to address the NT issues, I've been 100% unsuccessful in making their programming run. Other uses for $40. include: dinner, Christmas presents, a good movie, 2 pizzas, 8 trips to McDonalds, 1/2-pair of shoes, 2 tanning sessions, a copy of Harper Lee's book and ... Read More
Rating: - Could not put it down!
This is definitely the favorite in my library! I literally went through the entire book one evening after successfully installing several of the scripts and learned more about Perl than from any other resource or class...
Rating: - A great intermediate-level PERL resource.
More a library of pre-designed CGI-based systems than a reference book, "Instant Web Scripts With CGI" is a great way for the system admin or webmaster to add relatively advanced components to a web site with relatively little effort.
This book, however, is not for the PERL novice; although most included systems seem to work well with little or no modification save those to configuration files, the book offers little help with making significant functional changes to its scripts, and does ... Read More
- Great Coverage Most Necessary Scripts
- Not for NT servers
