Perl for Web site management /
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| Author / Creator: | Callender, John (John Bryan), 1962- |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2002. |
| Description: | xviii, 508 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4871761 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1.. Getting Your Tools in Order
- Open Source Versus Proprietary Software
- Evaluating a Hosting Provider
- Web Hosting Alternatives
- Getting Started with SSH/Telnet
- Meet the Unix Shell
- Network Troubleshooting
- A Suitable Text Editor
- 2.. Getting Started with Perl
- Finding Perl on Your System
- Creating the "Hello, world!" Script
- The Dot Slash Thing
- Unix File Permissions
- Running (and Debugging) the Script
- Perl Documentation
- Perl Variables
- A Bit More About Quoting
- "Hello, world!" as a CGI Script
- 3.. Running a Form-to-Email Gateway
- Checking for CGI.pm
- Creating the HTML Form
- The [left angle bracket]FORM[right angle bracket] Tag's ACTION Attribute
- The mail_form.cgi Script
- Warnings via Perl's-w Switch
- The Configuration Section
- Invoking CGI.pm
- foreach Loops
- if Statements
- Filehandles and Piped Output
- die Statements
- Outputting the Message
- Testing the Script
- 4.. Power Editing with Perl
- Being Careful
- Renaming Files
- Modifying HREF Attributes
- Writing the Modified Files Back to Disk
- 5.. Parsing Text Files
- The "Dirty Data" Problem
- Required Features
- Obtaining the Data
- Parsing the Data
- Outputting Sample Data
- Making the Script Smarter
- Parsing the Category File
- Testing the Script Again
- 6.. Generating HTML
- The Modified make_exhibit.plx Script
- Changes to andparse_exhibitor
- Adding Categories to the Company Listings
- Creating Directories
- Generating the HTML Pages
- Generating the Top-level Page
- 7.. Regular Expressions Demystified
- Delimiters
- Trailing Modifiers
- The Search Pattern
- Taking It for a Spin
- Thinking Like a Computer
- 8.. Parsing Web Access Logs
- Log File Structure
- Converting IP Addresses
- The Log-Analysis Script
- Different Log File Formats
- Storing the Data
- The "Visit" Data Structure
- 9.. Date Arithmetic
- Date/Time Conversions
- Using the Time::Local Module
- Caching Date Conversions
- Scoping via Anonymous Blocks
- Using a BEGIN Block
- 10.. Generating a Web Access Report
- The andnew_visit and andadd_to_visit Subroutines
- Generating the Report
- Showing the Details of Each Visit
- Reporting the Most Popular Pages
- Fancier Sorting
- Mailing the Report
- Using cron
- 11.. Link Checking
- Maintaining Links
- Finding Files with File::Find
- Looking for Links
- Extracting
- Putting It All Together
- Using CPAN
- Checking Remote Links
- A Proper Link Checker
- 12.. Running a CGI Guestbook
- The Guestbook Script
- Taint Mode
- Guestbook Preliminaries
- Untainting with Backreferences
- File Locking
- Guestbook File Permissions
- 13.. Running a CGI Search Tool
- Downloading and Compiling SWISH-E
- Indexing with SWISH-E
- Running SWISH-E from the Command Line
- Running SWISH-E via a CGI Script
- 14.. Using HTML Templates
- Using Templates
- Reading Fillings Back In
- Rewriting an Entire Site
- 15.. Generating Links
- The Docbase Concept
- The CyberFair Site's Architecture
- The Script's Data Structure
- Using Data::Dumper
- Creating Anonymous Hashes and Arrays
- Automatically Generating Links
- Inserting the Links
- 16.. Writing Perl Modules
- A Simple Module Template
- Installing the Module
- The Cyberfair::Page Module
- 17.. Adding Pages via CGI Script
- Why Add Pages with a CGI Script?
- A Script for Creating HTML Documents
- Controlling a Multistage CGI Script
- Using Parameterized Links
- Building a Form
- Posting Pages from the CGI Script
- Running External Commands with system and Backticks
- Race Conditions
- File Locking
- Adding Link Checking
- 18.. Monitoring Search Engine Positioning
- Installing WWW::Search
- A Single-Search Results Tool
- A Multisearch Results Tool
- The map Function
- 19.. Keeping Track of Users
- Stateless Transactions
- Identifying Individual Users
- Basic Authentication
- Automating User Registration
- Storing Data on the Server
- The Register Script
- The Verification Script
- 20.. Storing Data in DBM Files
- Data Storage Options
- The tie Function
- A DBM Example Script
- Blocking Versus Nonblocking Behavior
- Storing Multilevel Data in DBM Files
- An MLDBM-Using Registration Script
- An MLDBM-Using Verification Script
- 21.. Where to Go Next
- Unix System Administration
- Programming
- Apache Server Administration and mod_perl
- Relational Databases
- Advocacy
- Index