PERL: Advanced Programming

Course Description

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• Write PERL code that is easy to use, easy to read and easy to extend.
• Take advantage of teh rich context created by other PERL programmers and the free software they have published.
• Utilise nested variables and references to manipulate values within arrays and hashes.
• Manipulate some useful PERL functions that handle arrays, hashes and strings.
• Use advanced features of the PERL programming language to save time and provide solutions to difficult problems.
• Interact with the server, manipulate files and directories, and process external programmes on the server.
• Use SQL databases from PERL scripts to save programming time and improve performance.
• Use cookies for sessions and authentication.
• Work with a range of e-commerce solutions, from simple order forms to shopping basket and real-time credit card transactions.
• Write PERL scripts that send e-mails
• Use HTML templates to enhance the integration of script-generated content with the design of the pages in which it appears.
• Re-use PERL code by creating subroutines and modules.
• Create PERL programmes that work well in the command line environment.
• Find and solve tricky and elusive bugs in scripts.
• Extend the capabilities of scripts by running other programmes.
• Write PERL scripts that run on any platform.

Duration: 2 days