Essential Perl 5 for Web Professionals

An excellent example of real world Perl. I highly recommend this book to any IT professional who is interested in implementing Perl with their web servers. I've been working with Perl in system administration for many years. Despite some of the dogma of "experienced webmasters" who may review this book with a critical eye, it meets the expecations of it's target audience. Those people who want to get the system up, the web site generating revenues, and move on to the next project.A must read.

I frustrated myself for half a year searching for information on CGI. There simply is nothing online and nothing else in print that will teach you Perl if you are not already a fairly seasoned programmer. This book made it simple and plain, rather than garbled and hard to follow. It leads you through many examples - they're great because they are common, real-world scripts. The cover price is a bit shocking for such a small book, but it is absolutely worth it. The books I bought before, all more expensive and larger, are only helpful to me now that I have read through this book. Some of them are still impossible to read because the authors just don't know how to write. The authors of this book are experts at explaining new concepts.

If you are interested in learning perl for web cgi functions this book rocks. Its the only one I have run into that gives examples of code and explains it line by line, in layman! The only reason I am giving it 4 stars is because I could have used a few more examples. The book is toooo short. I warn potental readers that this book does not go into great detail about the perl language itself (which is useful for much more than web CGI) but if you don't care about that and want to dive into making forms and interactive web pages you have to buy this book now!

Excellent book for learning web-based PERL applications. The examples were concisely and fairly well explained. The appendix does a good job of elaborating in more detail. You probably will not like this book if you do not have a programming background. Also, you'll need a good PERL reference book as a companion. The book does not come with a CD ROM, so you'll have to type out the examples.

I was recommended this book by a friend and I found perl alot easier to use than I first thought. Fun examples and the author took the time to answer a question I had. Definetly recommend!