I need a book, and went to amazon to find one. After reading through the list of books and a few revues, I found one that fitted the bill perfectly. It's called Perl/CGI Programming: No experience Required by Erik Strom. Problem is it's out of print. I need to set up a shoppingcart system at work, and since it has to be specialised I needed a book about exactly that. The only book I found, was the one that is out of print.:(

So... can anyone recomend another book about perl, cgi and how to build a complete e-commerce sulotion, with examples and such? Or if there is a bookstore out there that still has the one I found? Preferrable in an EU country.

Please!!!

Perl has advanced a lot and if this book is out of print (I've never heard of it, it must not be very good) then it's probably worthless and deals with out of date aspects. You should get Learning Perl, Programming Perl or something that's a long time favorite and respectable. You can't loose with the (most of the) O'Reilly Perl books.

Actually, the book comes highly recomended and is even the basis for some chapters in another book. I'm looking for books that specifically deals with setting up a shopping-cart system and e-commers, NOT just programming. I need the links between sql perl and html. I know html already so I don't need abook that spends chapter after chapter on how to write html, and I don't need a book that tells me how to use perl to make my server jump through hoops.

If I had a couple of months to spare I would start with the basics and move up, learning perl as I know html, BUT my boss wants me to set up a customaised system in a couple of weeks, so I don't have the time.

So... a book aimed specifically towards e-commers, perl, shopping-carts, and sql, that's what I need for now.

Why don't you get a used copy? Used does not always mean crappy.

Used Books (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/offering/list/-/0782121578/used/ref=dp_pb_u/102-8950182-6012132)

Also, there is a book store about 15 minutes from my house that sells ONLY computer books (and he is STOCKED with them, believe me), the owner may have it and will ship it, I'll find out and let you know.

You need a book about DBI if you want to use a mySQL database.

Hope that helps some...:)

Did you try half.com?

About sql... I'm pretty good at MS-Access, even written part of a book about it, so when it comes to the design of a database, I pretty much know what to do. I just "translate" what I do in Access and put it to work in sql, so that's not the biggest problem. I however is not really up to date on putting the front up. Access have forms in the software, and now I have to do it in HTML.

I live in Sweden, so used books from Amazon.com will take around 6 weeks.:( and they don't have any at Amazon.co.uk.
I went to our local computer bookstore to check what they had, but found no specialised books about cgi and e-commerse. I already have Sams teach yourself in 24 hours, but the shop I have to set up will be more advanced than that, now that my boss finally have decided we should have one. I found one book that was pretty close to my needs, but it uses php instead of cgi. I think php is out of the question, but maybe someone can clarify that for me. The web-hotel only says we can use cgi, but nothing about php. There is a 50mb mysql database readdy to use, so that part is fine.