Reviews for Teach Yourself Cgi Programming With Perl 5 in a Week

1. Suitable for experienced programmers who are new to CGI/Perl

   Rated 3 out of 5 stars, December 12th, 1999

   This book is a good introduction to CGI programming using Perl 5 for those with at least a basic grasp of programming and the web. The examples are useful although most of them are not on the CD which is disappointing. The main drawback is that the author refers to HTML+, Netscape being the pinnacle of the browser market and HTTP 1.0 - dated to say the least, but then so is CGI and Perl!!!

   That said, the book has helped me program CGI functionality into web sites hosted on the UNIX platform with the minimum of fuss, when I am used to Windows NT throwing out Active Server Pages by the bucket load...

   The clear layout and style of the SAMS Teach Yourself series is also appealing.

2. Many examples not included in either the book or on the CD

   Rated 1 out of 5 stars, July 12st, 1998

   I found some useful information in this book but way too many examples are missing. For example, in Chapter 7 you build a form which posts to a non-existent CGI program. There is no indication anywhere to explain what this missing CGI does.

   There are no updated files on the publisher's website so you're just stuck.

   Don't waste your money on this book.

3. Wrong Code Examples in the book

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 1998

   There are incorrect code examples in the book and their online "help" isn't. Unless you allready know some perl or have any other programming experience, this book not much help.

4. Not for beginners

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 1997

   I was lost from the beginning, and I have a fairly good background in Perl and HTML. The book is supposed to be about cgi programming, but it gave more information about how to write HTML forms than anything else. There was one good script that was for beginners, the (first.cgi).Although, it too was only about forms and how to call html from a cgi program.It would be a good 2nd or 3rd book for cgi programming, but definately not for beginners.