I bought the second edition of this book because I knew a little about Perl but nothing about CGI programming for the Web. I found it excellent, and liked the way it recommended and explained how to install a local Windows server on which to test scripts. Yeah, I already knew html, but lots of people don't and it is a beginners book.
The second edition appears to address the issues in ovid's review; CGI.pm, -wT etc. A whole chapter (admittedly not many pages, but it's a start) is devoted to security, and also points the reader to suitable sources for security information.
Sure, there are faults in the book, but the point is that it's an easy read and gets the job done - not perfectly, but it can be improved later. It's a Quick Start - it doesn't claim to be the definitive teach yourself Perl or Web Techniques. | [reply] |
In response to the previous responses, yes, this book has already been reviewed here at perlmonks.org, BUT I figured that there needed to be a shorter review so that the general public could read it faster and understand what this book was about. It contains more of useless homebrewed parsing and so on and as stated by davorg it doesn't use CGI.pm or -w etc. Thank you for your comments though. --bladx
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