MySQL and Perl for the Web

Using the Applications in This Book

You don’t just develop theoretical demonstrations here—we’ll develop several complete applications that can actually be used. You might use some of them with little modification, but it’s more likely that you’ll want to make more significant changes to suit your own purposes. For that reason, when reading about an application, don’t take the attitude, “How can I force-fit the problems I want to solve into these applications?” Instead, ask, “How can I adapt this code for my own situation?” It’s more important that you understand the code for each example application we develop than that you look at it as a finished product. Think of the programs as not-yet-hardened clay that you can shape to conform to your ...