Application Development Fundamentals

• The Application Development Process
• Platforms, Languages and Protocols
• Client-side Versus Server-side Scripting
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Introduction to CGI and Perl

• Web Architecture Overview
• What Is CGI?
• Why Use CGI?
• What Is Perl?
• Why Use Perl?

Perl Fundamentals

• Accessing Environment Variables
• Using CGI.pm to Access Environment Variables
• The if Statement
• Logical Expressions
• Pattern Matching
• Perl Arrays
• Passing Values to Functions
• Associative Arrays
• Loops

Perl File Input and Output Capabilities

• File IO Using File Handles
• File Modes
• Using Files in Scripts
• Creating a Hit Counter

Controlling Processing and Output

• Introduction to CGI.pm
• Incorporating HTML into Perl using CGI.pm
• Using CGI.pm to Access Form Data
• Processing User-Entered Data
• Using One File to Create and Process an HTML Form
• Using Perl to Validate Form Input
• Testing Your Script Offline

Saving User-supplied Data to a File

• Saving Form Data to a File
• Modifying Form Data
• Pattern Matching Revisited

Reading a File

• Introduction to Data Reading
• Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
• Substitution

Introduction to Databases

• Introduction to Database Programming
• Four Steps to Interacting with Databases
• Connecting to Databases
• Quoting Revisited Querying Table and Field Names
• Web Database Query Example

CGI Security Issues

• Type of Attacks
• Securing the CGI Script
• Securing the Server
• Securing Form Data
• Securing Data Passed to Commands

CGI Security Issues

• Resources (Appendix)
• Installing Apache Server
• Installing Perl on UNIX and Win 32
• Requirements Documents