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The CGI/Perl Cookbook
Patchett & Wright
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is the way you interface software to HTML and your web server. This book is a very good introduction to those wanting to use Perl for the task. One of the authors, Matt Wright, is famous for his archive of free scripts written in Perl and the book builds on this material. It includes a CD-ROM with over 10,000 lines of Perl code that give you a large number of complete scripts and some useful subroutines with line by line explanations of each.
With this book you will be adding complex functions to your server/site very quickly (once you know a little Perl) and by the time you've finished with this book you will be able to write exceptionally powerful CGI scripts. The only downside is a small number of typos in the example scripts but I found them easily fixed. There is also a web site with fixed and upgraded copies of the examples and an email list for installing and modifying the examples. I would recommend this book to everyone.
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