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Tables of Contents for Official Guide to Programming With Cgi.Pm
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Getting Started with CGI.pm
1
20
What Is CGI.pm?
1
6
Background
2
5
What You Need to Know Before Using CGI.pm
7
1
Finding CGI.pm
8
7
Downloading the CGI.pm Distribution
8
7
Web Server Configuration
15
2
If You Run into Trouble
17
4
Other Modules of Interest
19
2
CGI.pm Basics
21
80
Displaying a Plain Text File
22
5
Creating an HTML Page
27
4
Creating a Page with Fancy HTML Tags
31
13
HTML Shortcut Summary
38
1
HTML 3.2 Shortcuts
38
6
Getting User Input
44
10
More Fill-Out Form Elements
54
8
Text Input
54
2
Exclusive Choices
56
2
Inclusive Choices
58
2
Buttons
60
2
More About the Param() Function
62
3
Outputting More than One Page
65
3
A Multiplart Form
68
9
A Guestbook Script
77
13
Displaying a Random Picture
90
4
Adding Trademarks to Product Names
94
3
Shielding Private Information from Outside Sites
97
4
Advanced Tricks
101
90
Debugging
101
4
Graceful Error Messages
105
3
Fancy HTML Formatting
108
9
Clickable Image Maps
117
2
Saving State to Files
119
10
Object-Oriented Programming with CGI.pm
129
8
Importing All Parameters into a Namespace
137
2
Using Cookies to Maintain State
139
10
File Uploads
149
8
File Uploads and Server Security
155
2
Fancy HTTP Headers
157
6
The Status Code
157
3
Controlling Caching
160
2
Refreshing a Page After a Delay
162
1
Frames
163
8
JavaScript-Enhanced Pages
171
12
Incremental Updates: NPH Mode
183
8
Server Push
187
4
Extending CGI.pm
191
18
Extending CGI.pm's Object-Oriented Interface
191
9
Extending the Function-Oriented Interface
194
3
Internal Functions
197
3
Using CGI.pm with FastCGI and mod___perl
200
6
FastCGI
200
3
mod___perl
203
3
Migrating from cgi-lib.pl
206
3
Reference Guide
209
82
Function Sets and Pragmas
209
3
Function Sets
210
1
Pragmas
211
1
CGI.pm Syntax
212
5
Object-Oriented Syntax
212
2
Function-Oriented Syntax
214
1
Named and Positional Argument Lists
215
2
HTTP Header and Environment
217
13
CGI Parameters
230
5
Fancy Tags and Fill-Out Forms
235
29
HTML Shortcuts
264
23
cgi-lib Compatibility Functions
287
4
Appendix A: Frequently Asked Questions
291
4
Appendix B: Using the Companion Web Site
295
4
Index
299