4 days hands-on £1,940+VAT
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Monday March 3rd, 2025
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Advanced Perl Programming
Outline
Review
- Importing modules
- Writing modules
- Packages
- Passing arguments to subroutines
- Using references
- Subroutine references
Regular Expressions
- Multi-line matches
- Minimal matches
- Regular expression extensions
Object Orientation
- Creating classes
- Constructors and destructors
- Virtual constructors
- Copying references and values
- Operator overloading
- Anonymous subroutines and closures
- Inheritance
Database Access
- The DBI/DBD architecture
- DBD drivers
- Connection and disconnection
- Executing SQL statements
- Processing statement results
- Accessing metadata
- Transactional processing
Web Programming
- HTTP overview
- The CGI module
- Form processing
- State management
- Image handling
- Using cookies
- Encryption modules
Networking
- TCP/IP overview
- Using sockets
- Writing clients and servers
Multi-processing
- Process creation and destruction
- Thread creation and destruction
- Synchronisation
Interfacing to Other Languages
- Calling C routines
- Accessing Perl from C
- Graphical interfaces with Perl/Tk
- Multi-line matches
- Minimal matches
- Regular expression extensions
Object Orientation
- Creating classes
- Constructors and destructors
- Virtual constructors
- Copying references and values
- Operator overloading
- Anonymous subroutines and closures
- Inheritance
Database Access
- The DBI/DBD architecture
- DBD drivers
- Connection and disconnection
- Executing SQL statements
- Processing statement results
- Accessing metadata
- Transactional processing
Web Programming
- HTTP overview
- The CGI module
- Form processing
- State management
- Image handling
- Using cookies
- Encryption modules
Networking
- TCP/IP overview
- Using sockets
- Writing clients and servers
Multi-processing
- Process creation and destruction
- Thread creation and destruction
- Synchronisation
Interfacing to Other Languages
- Calling C routines
- Accessing Perl from C
- Graphical interfaces with Perl/Tk
- The DBI/DBD architecture
- DBD drivers
- Connection and disconnection
- Executing SQL statements
- Processing statement results
- Accessing metadata
- Transactional processing
Web Programming
- HTTP overview
- The CGI module
- Form processing
- State management
- Image handling
- Using cookies
- Encryption modules
Networking
- TCP/IP overview
- Using sockets
- Writing clients and servers
Multi-processing
- Process creation and destruction
- Thread creation and destruction
- Synchronisation
Interfacing to Other Languages
- Calling C routines
- Accessing Perl from C
- Graphical interfaces with Perl/Tk
- TCP/IP overview
- Using sockets
- Writing clients and servers
Multi-processing
- Process creation and destruction
- Thread creation and destruction
- Synchronisation
Interfacing to Other Languages
- Calling C routines
- Accessing Perl from C
- Graphical interfaces with Perl/Tk
- Calling C routines
- Accessing Perl from C
- Graphical interfaces with Perl/Tk
Overview
Perl is a powerful language for general-pupose text processing. Nevertheless, the major use for Perl has been CGI scripting. It is estimated that over 90% of CGI scripts are written in Perl.
Recent versions of Perl have included object-oriented features. Many modules are now object-oriented, including the CGI module for web page processing and the DBI module for data access.
This course provides a firm grounding in Perl's object-orientation and covers advanced use of regular expressions, before concentrating on web processing and data access.
Objectives
On successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Use the object-oriented features of Perl
- Use advanced regular expression features
- Access databases using DBI/DBD modules
- Perform CGI processing using the CGI module
- Write networked applications in Perl
- Write multi-processing applications in Perl
Audience
This course is for Perl programmers who wish to use the object-oriented features of Perl to perform CGI processing, database access, networking and multi-processing.
Prerequisites
Participants are expected to be familiar Perl up to the level covered in the Introduction to Perl Programming course and to have some knowledge of HTML and SQL.
