On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Blake Thornton wrote: > Yep, I'm a beginner, but you can't learn without trying things out. No > offense at all was taken by you observing this, I appreciate the input and > especially the caution. > > I've got the first edition of "programming perl." the third edition is > out and perhaps I should buy it. Would you (or someone) suggest > "programming perl" or "learning perl"? Another one is "Cgi programming > with perl"
I'd really recommend learning perl well *before* trying to write any CGI stuff. Having worked for an ISP and (until tomorrow) had to vet CGI stuff submitted by customers, I have seen a lot of security issues that were often hard to explain to the customers. Learning Perl is a good introduction, work through that and then use Programming Perl as a reference. The only book I've seen about using perl for CGI scripts was IMO not teaching good practices, especially w.r.t. flat-file databases, and did not focus enough on security; I'd avoid it. Instead look at the documentation for the CGI perl module, and spend a fair bit of time experimenting. I can heartily endorse the first two books. They are useful. Your best bet would perhaps be the "Perl CD Bookshelf" which has the text of six books on the CD and a copy of "Perl in a Nutshell" included. The latter isn't really much help until you already know Perl well, but having the full text of six books with indices is well worth it. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
