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Summary

Practical guide presents a broad survey of LAMP technologies, and shows how these solutions can be implemented efficiently and securely while improving reliability and dramatically cutting costs. Provides the most useful, practical information on a broad range of open source technologies. Softcover.

Author Biography

James Lee is founder and CEO of Onsight Inc., an Open Source training and development company. He has developed a number of Web sites using Linux, Apache, MySQL, mod_perl, Embperl, and related technologies. A contributor to Linux Journal, he is the coauthor of Hacking Linux Exposed (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001).

Brent Ware holds a Ph.D. in physics and an M.S. in electrical engineering and is currently a scientist at NASA/Caltech¿s Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California. He has been a system administrator of Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X systems and also contributed to Hacking Linux Exposed (McGraw-Hill, 2001).

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Foreword	p. xvii
Preface	p. xix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
About the Authors	p. xxv
Introduction	p. xxvii
The Best of All Possible Worlds	p. xxviii
Open Source Software	p. xxviii
Summary	p. xxxiii
Resources	p. xxxiv
Structural	p. 1
The Web Explained	p. 3
How It Works	p. 3
What We Don't Talk About	p. 8
Security	p. 9
Summary	p. 10
Resources	p. 10
Linux--The Choice of a GNU Generation	p. 11
Introduction	p. 11
Basic Unix	p. 20
Summary	p. 31
Resources	p. 31
Apache Web Server	p. 33
Introduction	p. 33
Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Apache	p. 36
Configuration	p. 39
Securing Apache	p. 41
Create the Web Site	p. 46
Apache Log Files	p. 50
Summary	p. 55
Resources	p. 55
Perl	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
Perl Documentation	p. 58
Perl Syntax Rules	p. 59
A Quick Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming	p. 104
What We Didn't Talk About	p. 106
Summary	p. 107
Resources	p. 107
MySQL	p. 109
Introduction	p. 109
Tutorial	p. 109
Database Independent Interface	p. 122
Table Joins	p. 127
Loading and Dumping a Database	p. 129
Summary	p. 130
Resources	p. 130
Static	p. 131
Website META Language	p. 133
Introduction	p. 133
Installation	p. 135
The Basics	p. 135
Creating a Template	p. 138
Other Helpful Includes	p. 147
Diversion	p. 162
A Better Template	p. 165
Configuring WML with .wm1rc	p. 167
Macros--Creating Custom Tags	p. 170
Programming Code--eperl	p. 174
Project	p. 179
Summary	p. 184
Dynamic	p. 185
The Common Gateway Interface	p. 187
Introduction	p. 187
Apache Configuration	p. 190
A First CGI Program	p. 191
What Can Go Wrong?	p. 196
CGI.pm Introduced	p. 197
CGI.pm HTML Shortcuts	p. 200
Information Received by the CGI Program	p. 202
Form Widget Methods	p. 216
CGI Security Considerations	p. 218
A Note about die()	p. 222
Project--CGI/MySQL/DBI	p. 223
Summary	p. 230
Resources	p. 230
mod_perl	p. 231
Introduction	p. 231
Configuration	p. 233
Turning CGIs into mod_perl Programs	p. 235
Pure mod_perl Programming	p. 243
Project: MySQL, DBI, and mod_perl	p. 253
Other Stuff You Can Do	p. 272
Summary	p. 273
Resources	p. 273
Embedded	p. 275
Server Side Includes	p. 277
Introduction	p. 277
Security Considerations	p. 286
Summary	p. 286
Resources	p. 286
Embperl (HTML::Embper1)	p. 287
Introduction	p. 287
Installing Embperl	p. 288
Apache Configuration	p. 289
A Quick Example	p. 291
Embperl Commands	p. 292
Posted Data and %fdat	p. 299
Other Empberl Variables--$row and $co1	p. 301
Embperl Project	p. 304
What We Didn't Talk About	p. 327
Summary	p. 329
Resources	p. 329
Mason (HTML::Mason)	p. 331
Introduction	p. 331
Installation	p. 333
Apache Configuration	p. 334
A Quick Example	p. 335
Inline Perl Sections	p. 336
Handling Posted Data with %ARGS and [left angle bracket]%args[right angle bracket]	p. 343
Mason Components	p. 348
Mason Project	p. 357
What We Didn't Talk About	p. 372
Summary	p. 375
Resources	p. 375
PHP	p. 377
Introduction	p. 377
Embedding PHP into HTML	p. 378
Configuration	p. 379
A Couple of Quick Examples	p. 379
Language Syntax	p. 381
Built-In PHP Functions	p. 405
PHP and MySQL	p. 411
Project	p. 420
Summary	p. 431
Resources	p. 431
Bibliography	p. 433
Index	p. 437
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Is This Book for You?This book's target audience is the person who wants to get an interactive database-based web site up and running without spending a whole bunch of money on a large stack of books and software. That person might be a technically competent Linux user who is not necessarily a Perl or a CGI whiz; a graphic designer, with a technical bent, who wants to build a web site without becoming a certified computer whiz; or an MCSE who has heard rumors that there might be another way to do things.Up to now, these folks would have had to purchase four or five thick books and wade through them, picking out the knowledge needed to accomplish necessary tasks. It's likely they would accomplish this in a less than optimal way, picking up some things and missing others, revamping and redoing as they learn new things without being aware of the security considerations necessary to keep their site and computer safe. The goal of this book is to summarize much of the information about Open Source in one place and to do so in a manner that will get the prospective web developer up and running safely and efficiently, including pointers to other resources when it becomes necessary to have more knowledge than is provided here.Our target audience, ideally, would have some familiarity with Unix, some sort of modern programming language (C, FORTRAN, Perl, Pascal, C++, Javamost anything will do), and HTML. The scope here, and the sheer constraints on its size, force us to limit explanations and assume some background knowledge; we touch on a lot of things, enough so that you ought to be able to ask the right questions on a search engine. If you don't have any Unix experience, or if you are not a seasoned programmer, this book can still be useful, with motivation and, perhaps, the purchase of a few other computer books. What It Will DoIn this book, we introduce you to the pillars of LAMPLinux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl and PHP, with mod perl, Embperl, Mason, and WML tossed in for good measure. We are biting off a lot with this book, and this is what we intended to do. We want to cover as much ground as possible and present you with various approaches for programming a web site with Open Source products. The goal is to point out the part of each of these Open Source approaches that provides the most functionality.Another goal is to make you aware of current techniques and standards: What is easily possible, what might be possible with more work, which tool is appropriate for which task. Just as important is how to discern the things you need from those you don't, or don't need just yet. Not least of all is how to do these things in as secure a fashion as possible. After all, you are opening up your box to the world with these techniques and should be wary of those with impure motives.Based on experience, we believe that 80 percent of the utility of any complicated tool is the result of knowing 20 percent of the uses of that tool, whether that tool be software, hardware, mechanical, or electronic. Swiss Army knives are excellent and versatile tools, but most of the time, you just use the blade or the screwdriver.The purpose of this book is to introduce you to that 20 percentthe blade and the screwdriverthat opens up the most functionality, and to make you aware of the remaining 80 percent so that you can use the other tools when appropriate.And to teach you to not use the blade as a screwdriver. Four PartsThe book is divided into four parts:Part I, Structural: Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perlthe structural system foundations on which LAMP is built and the other programs run. Linux is the operating system this is all based on. We touch only lightly on Linux because it's a big subject and one that doesn't need to be dealt with much after it's installed. Apache is the web server software th

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