Perl Tutorials

Learn Perl in 10 easy lesson

This is a perl tutorial at Linux Forums.

Beginner Tutorial for CGI Perl Language

A tutorial for perl language. Teaches how to develop CGI(Commen Gateway Interface) perl programs for websites.

perlhowto.com

Perl tips and howtos (click on recent posts for a list of the howtos).

Abridged Perl/Tk Tutorial

A tutorial that teaches how to develop and code GUI(Graphical User Interface) programs using the Tk module in perl.

Perl Tutorial

This site has a perl tutorial that includes the basics of the perl language and using chmod as well as information about matching expressions and working with files.

Perl 101

8-part free Perl tutorial at Developer Shed that covers basics, variables, loops, arrays, files, subroutines and built-in functions. The tutorial wraps up with samples of a guestbook, counter, and form mailer

The Perl You Need to Know

Web Developers Virtual Library site that covers getting Perl, running Perl, variables, operators, arrays, conditionals and loops, hashes and functions.

Perl Tutorial: Start

A University of Leeds Perl tutorial that can be downloaded in text format from their ftp server. Covers all the basics: variables, arrays, filehandling, loops, conditionals, string matching, associative arrays and subroutines. Includes exercises.

introduction to Perl 5 for web developers

This site features a comprehensive Perl 5 tutorial including references, variable localization, introduction to object oriented design and procedural programming, defining classes in Perl, instantiating objects, using methods and using modules.

Beginner's Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl

This page is designed to help novice programmers learn the Perl programming language. Features Hello World example from the command line and as a CGI script, running a form-to email gateway and running a guestbook. Can be downloaded in PC or Unix zip/tar files.

Beginner's Introduction to Perl

A one-page intro to Perl that covers variables and loops and includes a small example of a compound interest script.

Beginner's Tutorial for CGI Perl Language

A Beginner's Tutorial for CGI Perl Language Teaches how to develop and code CGI(Commen Gateway Interface) perl programs for websites.

PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language

Part documentation and part introduction this is for Perl 4.

Perl Scripts

Matt's Script Archive

Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts. Almost all of these appear to be free (I saw one that appeared to be for sale) and include FormMail, GuestBook, Search, Discussion Board, Counters, Random Images and Text as well as a bunch of others.

Perl Source Code

Lots of Perl source code.

DevScripts

Perl Scripts, Code Snippets and Code Samples

www.T-Productions.be

Free Perl scripts.

Sending email using perl and sendmail.

Here is a very simple program that emails a confirmation to a user that his/her request to subscribe to a newsletter has been accepted.

eUpload

This script allows for people using browsers that are RFC1867 compliant to upload files directly through their web browser to your server.

CGI Script Archive

CGI scripts, mostly in Perl.

Programs and Scripts: Perl

Large index of Perl scripts.

CGIWare

SendMail for NT and a couple of other Perl freeware scripts.

pingpackets.com

Perl scripts for counters, polls, guestbook, etc.

Perl Guestbooks

Matt's Script Archive: Guestbook

Guestbook allows you to set up your own comments page. From there, visitors can add entries to your guestbook and they will be displayed with the most recent at the top and scrolling down or vice versa. Other options include the ability to limit HTML in the entry, link to e-mail address with mailto tag, use a log to log entries, redirect to a different page after signing, e-mailing whenever a new entry is added and much more.

Perl Guestbook Script

A fully customizable perl guest book script for your web site. Free version includes a required link back to author web site.

Active Guestbook

A perl guestbook for your website. Free for non-commercial use.

GuestFriend

GuestFriend is a guestbook that has been designed to be fully customizable and easy to install. All text and layouts are customizable just by editing the HTML files with your web editor. You can also add your own images and graphics to these HTML files.

Free Perl Guestbook

Free Perl Guestbook (FPG) has been designed from the ground up to be a reliable and easy-to-use guestbook.

Jason's Guestbook

A Guestbook that allows visitors to leave a little information and a comment about themselves and logs each new entry at the top. You have the option to receive an e-mail with every new addition to your guestbook. Also, the script will eliminate any fields that are not filled in by the visitor. However, the visitor must fill in their name and a comment, the others are optional.

Guestbook Perl Script

A free guest book for your web site.

BNBBOOK.CGI: Perl Guest Book

A free perl guest book script for your web site.

VizBookplus

VizBookplus is a very popular versatile free-to-use-as-is-only guestbook list style Unix cgi script written for Perl 5 requiring Sendmail. There are numerous readily changed options you can use to constantly alter the appearance of the list and keep the interest of repeat visitors.

GUESTSERVER

Free guest book for your web site.

Viewz Guestbook

Perl guest book.

gb

gb is a simple guestbook program written in Perl. Allows your website visitors to leave a name and brief message, and optionally their email and URL. It will generate the submission form dynamically.

Perl Official Sites

Documentation

Core documentation for the Perl language.

Perl Mongers

The Perl advocacy people.

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Welcome to CPAN! Here you will find All Things Perl.

ActiveState

Download ActivePerl, ActivePython or ActiveTcl

MacPerl 5

MacPerl supports the Perl programming language on Mac OS (not Mac OS X). Mac OS 8.1 - 9.x are supported; 7.5.5 is supported by the MPW tool and older versions of the app. 5.6.1r2 is the current version (based on perl 5.6.1); MacPerl 5.8 is in development.

Perl IDE

Open Perl IDE

Open Perl IDE is a visual, integrated development environment for writing and debugging Perl scripts with any standard Perl distribution under Windows 95/98/NT/2000

PerlEdit

PerlEdit is an IDE for Perl and a general-purpose text editor. It includes a source code text editor with syntax highlighting and a visual debugger. PerlEdit is multi-platform and currently supports Windows and Linux. PerlEdit is free for personal non-commercial use.

Perl Forums

PerlMonks.com

Discussion group and other Perl resources.

Experts-Exchange.com

Perl Forum

Perl Forum

Tek-Tips Perl forum.

code4u.com

Perl forum

Perl FAQs

Perl Question and Answer Center

A small Perl FAQ.

Perl FAQ

Multi-part Perl FAQ.

Perl for Win32

Perl faq.

Perl/Tk FAQ

This document concerns itself with the Perl/Tk programming language (or, if you prefer, the Tk extension to Perl). Please be aware that this is not the Perl FAQ, this is not the Tcl FAQ, nor is this the Tcl/Tk FAQ.

irt.org

CGI & Perl FAQ Knowledge Base

CPAN Frequently Asked Questions

N/A

Perl Books

Perl 5 by Example

Online Perl Book. 22 chapters with appendixes.

Beginning Perl

Very complete (and completely free) Perl Beginners book, both HTML and downloadable (PDF).

Practical mod_perl

This free perl book is available in html or pdf versions, so you can view the perl book online or download this free book.

Picking Up Perl, Edition 0.12

Picking Up Perl is a freely redistributable tutorial book on Perl that can be downloaded in pdf, postscript, or textinfo format. It can also be viewed online in html format, either as one large file or as separate files for each chapter.

Extreme Perl

Extreme Perl is a book about Extreme Programming using the programming language Perl. This free Perl ebook is available in HTML, PDF, or A4 PDF.

Learning Perl the Hard Way

Learning Perl the Hard Way is a free book available under the GNU Free Documentation License. This free perl ebook can be downloaded in pdf or gzipped postscript format.

Web Client Programming with Perl

Free Online Perl Book

The Perl Reference Guide

The guide contains a concise description of all Perl 5 statements, functions, variables and lots of other useful information.

Perl Reference Guide & Perl Pocket Reference (PDF Link)

Short Perl refernce book in pdf form.

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

This is an out of print book from 1996 that is available from Oreilly.

Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics (Sample Chapter)

GenBank (Genetic Sequence Data Bank) is a rapidly growing international repository of known genetic sequences from a variety of organisms. Its use is central to modern biology and to bioinformatics.

CGI Programming with Perl, 2nd Edition (Sample Chapter)

Security.

Advanced Perl Programming (Sample Chapter)

Chapter 1: Data References and Anonymous Storage

Programming Web Services with Perl (Sample Chapter)

One chapter on Soap.

Oreilly Sample Chapters

Quite a few sample chapters from perl books are indexed here (some have already been linked to individually).

Perl Articles

What Is Perl 6

Perl article.

Perl Primer

A basic Perl/CGI article that is essentially Hello World done in Perl.

Perl Practicum

A collection of articles on Perl.

Sorting Techniques

This article is about teaching the novice programmer how to sort lists of things, while showing to the more experienced folks certain techniques and ideas that could be new to them if they are migrating from a different language

writing COM components in Perl

Perl article.

intro to Perl on Windows

Using Perl on windows article.

Perl, Sockets and TCP/IP Networking

An oversimplified introduction to sockets.

A Conversation with Larry Wall

The creator of Perl talks about language design and Perl.

Multiplexing filehandles with select() in perl.

Short Perl article.

CGI Resources

CGI Programming 101

The first six chapters from a book on CGI programming are available for free online or in .pdf format. Sample chapters cover getting started (writing scripts, uploading, etc.), Perl Variables, CGI Environment Variables, Processing Forms, Advanced Forms, and Reading & Writing Data Files. Source code from remaining chapters is also available.

CGI for the Total Non-Programmer

Short tutorial on the basics of creating CGIs with Perl on a Unix platform and includes a template for running scripts on a pc or mac. Covers the basics of Perl, hit counting, and guestbooks. The main page says processing passwords is covered, but I didn't see it when I was there.

How CGI Scripting Works

A basic introduction to CGI.

CGI Tutorial

A short tutorial from the University of Leeds that explains CGI scripts, demonstrates a simple Perl script, CGI environment variables and forms. Appears to be all Perl and includes a few exercises.

The CGI Bin

5 tutorials on CGI form handling, hit counting, cookies and Server Side Includes.

WDVL Web Programming Tutorial

Comprehensive site from the Wed Developers Virtual Library that covers CGI programming with Perl. This is essentially a four day online course on web programming and day two focuses on CGI and Perl with topics too numerous to list. Day one has information about setting up forms and the last two days cover java & applets.

A guide to HTML and CGI scripts

This site has some basic HTML stuff and examples of forms as well as an example of calling a CGI script file, decoding data sent to a CGI script and a script to record users to a web page. All the scripts appear to be in C++.

The Most Simple Intro to CGI

This site has an explanation of how CGI works illustrated with some cute graphics and has an example first script in Perl that processes form data and writes the form input back to the browser.

CGI Made Really Easy

The title is a little optimistic, but this site includes a brief introduction has some sample scripts for "Hello World" and echoing form input in both Perl and C. Also a mailer script in Perl and some security inforomation and useful CGI environmental variables on the footnotes page that you can find from the links at the bottom of the main page.

The Common Gateway Interface

This site from NCSA has CGI documentation, examles of form handling in both C and Perl and an ftp archive of CGI programs.

CGI Script Installation Tutorial

An article on CGI installation that is a short tutorial for getting your scripts up and running on the server.

The CGI Directory:

This is an extensive CGI directory with over a thousand scripts and a tutorials sections for beginner and advanced as well as links to SSI (Server Side Includes) tutorials. The focus appears to be on Perl, naturally enough, but I only had time to sample a few of the many scripts.

CGI City

This site features an online Perl reference, web development articles, apache & MySQL installation instructions and a series of "How Do I" articles that are short how-to pages with example code in Perl "written with the beginner in mind."

CGI Programming FAQ

Frequently asked CGI questions.

CGI Programming on the World Wide Web

This book is out of print, but it has been made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project.

CGI Programming FAQ

CGI Programming FAQ (mirror of above)

CGI Forum

Free registration required to post.

Tek-Tips CGI Forum

CGI forum.