Tips for Convenient CGI Scripting

By Eugene Logvinov
2005-04-28

Resources

• Take a look at the most recent version and complete documentation for the CGI module .

• All the source code examples in this article can be found in the Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm (John Wiley & Sons, 1998).

• Take a look at the comprehensive Web server report (a Perl script).

• Check out CPAN's modules in alphabetical order by modules contained in the distributions.

• Find useful reference materials at the O'Reilly Open Books Project.

• Read an extensive article on Debugging CGI Scripts from the Perl/PHP Newsletter .

• Also on developerWorks , read:

• Zope for the Perl/CGI programmer
• Server-side scripting languages
• Cultured Perl: One-liners 101
• Repurposing CGI applications with SOAP
• Make your software behave: CGI programming made secure
• Download your own IBM Developer Kit for Linux from developerWorks !

Tutorial Pages:
» A Close Look at the CGI.pm Module
» The CGI module
» Displaying Script Errors in the Browser
» Displaying script errors in the browser
» CGI::LogCarp Usage and Shortcomings
» Standard Modules of CGI::* Type
» Resources

First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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