Getting started: introduction to Perl - what's Perl good for?, Perl development, which platforms support Perl?, Perl resources; installing Perl - the CPAN architecture, how is CPAN organized?, installing Perl getting and installing modules, documentation. Language basics: the Perl executable - command processing, command-line options, environment variables, the Perl compiler, threads; the Perl language - program structure, data types and variables, statements, special variables, operators, regular expressions, subroutines, references and complex data structures, filehandles, signals, unicode formats, pod; function reference - Perl functions by category, Perl functions in alphabetical order; debugging - the Perl debugger, debugger commands, using the debugger, customizing the debugger, the Perl profiler, the Perl bug program. Modules: packages, modules, and objects - namespaces and packages, modules, object-oriented Perl, object syntax; standard modules. CGI: CGI overview - a typical CGI interaction, URL encoding, extra path information, CGI environment variables; the CGI.pm module - HTML Tag generation, importing method groups, maintaining state named parameters, using JavaScript features, debugging, CGI.pm reference; Web server programming with mod_perl - design of mod_perl, installing mod_perl., mod_perl handlers, running CGI scripts with mod_perl server-side, includes with mod_perl, <Perl>, sections, Apache - modules; Databases - databases and Perl, DBM databases and DBM hashes, design of DBI, DBI methods, DBI environment variables; XML and SOAP; XML and Perl, XML parsing and validation; VI. XML and SOAP - XML and Perl, XML parsing and validation, XML - parser methods, expat handlers, XML - parser styles, expat encodings, XML - parser; SOAP - what is SOAP?, SOAP - lites, OAP - data, SOAP - serializer, SOAP - fault; network programming - sockets, built-in socket functions, the IO - socket module; email connectivity - the Net modules, the Mail modules; usenet news - the NNTP protocol, net - NNTP, the news - newsrc module; FTP - the FTP protocol, Net - FTP, FTP configuration with Net - Netrc; lightweight directory access with Net - LDAP; how data is stored in LDAP - searching an LDAP directory with Net - LDAP, adding an entry to the directory with Net - LDAP, Net - LDAP methods. (Part Contents)
