What You Have Achieved
By working through the material in this chapter, you have learned how to do the following things from within Perl scripts:
How to use DBI to connect to and disconnect from the MySQL server
How to run queries to add new records, or retrieve, delete, or modify existing records
How to generate dynamic Web pages using CGI.pm to produce HTML
How to perform basic Web form-processing operations
How to perform simple searching
Web servers were initially conceived as a means of transferring files easily to users on remote hosts. Generating dynamic pages as you’ve done in this chapter produces a Web serving environment that is fundamentally different. We’re still providing information to users, and they’re still viewing what appear ...
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