Developing Interactive Websites using Perl + Apache and MySQL

Participants will gain a firm understanding of the basic technologies underlying all interactive web applications: networking, HTML, form processing, client-side scripting and security.
In addition, participants will become proficient in Perl, the most commonly used server-side language, and learn how to deploy web applications on the Apache web server.

Outline

TCP/IP Basics
■The TCP/IP protocol stack
■IP addressing
■The Domain Naming System (DNS)
■Universal Resource Locators (URLs)
■HTTP overview

Server Processing Overview
■CGI scripts
■Active Server Pages (ASP)
■Servlets
■JavaServer Pages (JSP)
■PHP
■ColdFusion
■Server-side Includes (SSI)
■Applets

HTML
■HTML structure
■HTML tags
■Using images
■Embedding applets
■Using tables and frames
■Cascading style sheets

XHTML
■Writing XHTML
■Converting to XHTML
■Validating XHTML

User Input
■HTML forms and elements
■URL encoding
■State management
■Hidden fields
■Cookies

JavaScript
■JavaScript syntax
■The Document Object Model
■Controlling the browser
■Writing event handlers
■Implementing image rollovers
■Form validation
■Using cookies
■Browser dependencies

MySQL Overview
■MySQL features
■Basic configuration
Apache Web Server
■Basic configuration
■Virtual directories and sites
■Application deployment

Perl
■Perl syntax
■Regular expressions
■The CGI module
■Form processing
■Generating HTML
■I/O
■Sending email
■Using Perl DBI/DBD for database access

E-Commerce
■Security & encryption
■Digital signatures
■Certificates
■The Secure Socket Layer
■Processing credit cards
■Obtaining a certificate