Chapter 1: What You Should Already Know
A Quick Review of Perl
Perl Libraries
The Standard Perl Library
Packages
Modules
Using .pm Modules
Exporter.pm
Standard Perl Modules
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
Roman.pm
Miscellaneous Perl Topics – wantarray
Chapter 2: Associative Arrays
Introduction
Associative Arrays as Dual Arrays
A Hashing Algorithm
Collisions
Associative Arrays
Sorting by Keys or Values
Finding Unique Tokens in a File
Reverse Lookups
Selecting the Top n Elements
Chapter 3: References
Introduction
Summary of References
Array References
Anonymous Arrays
Anonymous Hashes
Prototypes
Higher Dimensional Arrays
Complex Hashes
References and Subroutines
Anonymous Subroutines
Lists of References
Chapter 4: Object-Oriented Programming
Introduction
Object-Oriented Vocabulary
The class Definition
Defining and Using Objects
Information Hiding
Instance Methods
Destructors
Class Methods
Inheritance
Polymorphism
Documenting Perl Code
IO.pm
Chapter 5: The TK.PM Module
Introduction
Event Driven Programming
Geometry Management
pack()
grid()
grid()Options
place(): Absolute Coordinates
place(): Relative Coordinates
The Label Widget
The Button Widget
The Checkbutton Widget
The Radiobutton Widget
The Dialog Widget
Text Input Widgets
The Listbox Widget
Menus
Frames
Toplevel Widgets
Bind
Chapter 6: Client-Server Applications and CGI
Introduction
Internet Terminology
Data Delivery
Writing a Simple Client
Writing a Simple Server
Writing an Iterative Server
ftp
The Common Gateway Interface
HTML Forms
The CGI Environment
Administering the Server
The HTTP Protocol
Header Information
The CGI Script
Extracting Form Data
The CGI Response
CGI Output
Database Access
What Can Go Wrong?
Images
Extra Path Information
Chapter 7: CGI.pm
Using CGI.pm?
Simple Form Elements
Parameters
HTML Tags
Form Processing
checkbox_group and radio_group
Text Areas
Popup Menus and Scrolling Lists
Debugging
Chapter 8: Accessing Real Databases in Perl
Introduction
Architecture
Review of SQL
Accessing Databases from Perl
Executing a Query in Perl
Accessing Database Metadata
Interactive Requests
Adding a Graphical Front-End
Accessing a Real Database via a Web Form
Chapter 9: XML Fundamentals
Introduction
What is a Markup Language?
SGML vs. HTML
Sample HTML Document
XML
Creating Semantic Tags
XML Syntax
Elements
Attributes
Comments
Unicode and Character Sets
Character References
Entity References
Character Data Sections (CDATA)
Processing Instructions
Parsing XML
Chapter 10: Processing XML With Perl
Creating an XML Document With Perl
Creating an XML Document
Using an XML Parser
XML::Simple
XML::Parser
Appendix A: An HTML (P)review
An HTML (P)review
An HTML (P)review: Basics
An HTML (P)review: Formatting Basics
An HTML (P)review: Links
An HTML (P)review: Forms