Course Objectives

You will master the skills and techniques to:

• Choose a strategy for web-enabling your database.
• Use browsers as your user interface.
• Breathe new life into legacy databases.
• Build new web-based database applications.
• Use Perl and its DBI and DBD modules.
• Connect to a relational database from a web page.
• Anticipate and handle errors when they arise.
• Insert, retrieve, and update data in a database using Perl.
• Generate web forms containing data retrieved from databases.
• Collect data from Web forms for database updates
• Generate reports on web pages from database retrievals.
• Perform basic database administration tasks from Perl scripts (optional).