Recipe Perl Resources

Perl Resources

The primary MySQL web site is http://www.mysql.com/.

Additional DBI and CGI.pm documentation is available from the command line:

% perldoc DBI % perldoc DBI::FAQ % perldoc DBD::mysql % perldoc CGI.pm          

Or online:

http://dbi.perl.org/

http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI.pm/

Programming Perl

Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant. O'Reilly Media: 2000. ISBN: 0-596-00027-8

Perl Cookbook

Tom Christiansen, and Nathan Torkington. O'Reilly Media: 2003. ISBN: 0-596-00313-7

Programming the Perl DBI

Alligator Descartes, and Tim Bunce. O'Reilly Media: 2000. ISBN: 1-565-92699-4

Book-length coverage of DBI; one of the authors (Bunce) is its primary architect.

Official Guide to Programming with CGI.pm

Lincoln Stein. Wiley Computer Publishing: 1998. ISBN: 0-471-24744-8

Lincoln Stein is the author of CGI.pm; his book is the standard reference work on the module.

MySQL and Perl for the Web

Paul DuBois. New Riders: 2001. ISBN: 0-735-71054-6

This book uses CGI.pm extensively in combination with the DBI module to show how to integrate MySQL into web-based applications.