15. A PHP Application The Wedding Gift Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 473Designing and Creating the Wedding Database
474
The Login Form
476
Passing
a Message to a Script478
Logging Users In and Out
480
The db.php Include File
486
Editing
the List of Gifts487
Loading Sample Gifts
497
Listing Gifts for Selection
497
Selecting
and Deselecting Gifts501
Resources
507
Exercises
507
Part V. Interacting with MySQL Using Perl 16. Perl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511Writing Your First Perl Program
512
Scripting
With Perl513
Resources
538
Exercises
538
17. Using Perl with MySQL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 539Connecting to the MySQL Server and Database
539
Handling Errors When Interacting with the Database
540
Using Queries
That Return Answer Sets542
Using Queries That Don’t Return Answer Sets
545
Binding Queries and Variables
546
Importing
and Exporting Data552
Handling NULL Values
554
Resources
554
Exercises
554
18. Serving Perl Pages to the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557The Perl CGI Module
560
Processing
User Input562
A Note on mod_perl
566
Perl Security
566
Resources
568
Exercises
568
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