Perl Training Australia - Web Development with Perl

Trainers:	Paul Fenwick Jacinta Richardson
Length:	2 days
Notes:	Course notes
Target Audience:	Perl programmers who are familiar with Perl's data structures, references, and subroutines, and who wish to use Perl for programming web-enabled applications. A basic knowledge of HTML is required.

This course covers the use of Perl to build dynamic websites and web-enabled applications using a number of best-practice technologies. The course covers classical CGI using Perl's CGI and HTML::Template modules, before going on to cover Perl's HTML::Mason environment for the development of highly maintainable and speedy code.

You will learn:

how to use the CGI module to accept and process data from forms;
how to use HTML::Template to separate Perl code from HTML;
how to use HTML::FillInForm to reduce the need for templating;
how to use Data::FormValidator to validate data passed in to your program;
how to use CGI::Cookie and CGI::Session to handle cookies and session information;
an introduction to HTML::Mason, and an overview of its advantages;
how to write and use Mason components;
how to use autohandlers to provide navigation, layout, and authentication;
how to use dhandlers for automatic generation of virtual pages;
how to create and use persistent user sessions in Mason;
how to use filters for multi-lingual websites and advanced formatting techniques;
how to utilise caching to speed up requests;