hagar need perl, you help hagar, hagar be your friend...
heya folks, I need to learn perl/CGI, and fast! Does anyone have some good URL's to guides and references for the language? need syntax guides and funtion listings etc.
Do we have an area in this forum just for reference links and resources for scripting and designing? If not, shouldnt we?
"I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword." - James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)
Wil posted this at 21:48 — 29th October 2002.
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A good starting Perl tutorial and reference guide I've found to be useful is:
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/Perl/start.html
For CGI (please remember Perl and CGI are totally differnet things) I've found the following course helpful:
http://www.easystreet.com/~ovid/cgi_course/
Good luck.
And if you need any more help, resources, reference etc. -- just ask.
- wil
zollet posted this at 21:59 — 29th October 2002.
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Maybe you should get one of those "Learn programming CGI in 24 hours" books
If you don't have any programming experience then I suggest you try learning PHP instead. If you want to learn Perl, there is a book by O´Reilly called "Learning Perl" that is truely great. One of the best computer related books I've ever read.
hagar posted this at 22:21 — 29th October 2002.
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I've got the programming experience, vbscript/aspscript fluent and php mildly fluent, but I have a specific project need to do perl/CGI so i can customize an installation of MRTG for a company project.
I'd rather steer away from printed goods, I have no budget to get them, and I'll be damned if I'm buying them myself:D
thanks for the links Wil!
"I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword." - James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)
kb posted this at 02:31 — 30th October 2002.
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love the thread title...besides that, like on most programming threads, can't really help...sorry
that was the light of my day
Wil posted this at 18:03 — 30th October 2002.
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What do you need to customize about MRTG? I thought MRTG was written in C anyway ... ?
ROB posted this at 19:23 — 30th October 2002.
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the active perl docs are a great and handy reference
hagar posted this at 22:21 — 30th October 2002.
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written in C? not from what the admin told me, but he could be wrong. It requires active perl and is full of .pl files he said... sooo I dunno lol. I havent even seen the damn thing yet:D
either way, think perl would be a good thing to learn, ive just finished an install of apache 2.x, active perl and php 4.x.x.x.x.x or whatever its up to now, so now I can see how I go. I'm refreshing my php skills at the same time, i forgot how much I forgot:D
"I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword." - James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)
Wil posted this at 22:24 — 30th October 2002.
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Hm. OK. I might be totally wrong. I just installd MRTG from the Debian deb files and left it to it. Works great for me "out of the box". What kind of customization do you need doing to it?
- wil
dk01 posted this at 22:53 — 30th October 2002.
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Hmm... what is this MRTG thing that you guys are talking about and what is its purpose?
-dk
Mark Hensler posted this at 23:21 — 30th October 2002.
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hagar posted this at 23:54 — 30th October 2002.
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im going to be trying to mate a database to it to generate graphs, got no idea of the level of redevelopment this will take if any. The admin will be using it just for his logs for network usage which I understand is pretty vanilla for it to do.
"I ’ll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword." - James Graham, Marquess of Montrose (1612–1650)
Wil posted this at 09:34 — 31st October 2002.
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Hm. One possible way around this is to run a cron job every day or every x you want the information archived and run a perl/php/bash script that skims the information from the output pages and throws them into a database?
- wil
hagar posted this at 21:31 — 31st October 2002.
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already got the RDB's, i just need the info from it used in the graphs through some sort of ODBC connection.
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