Since from two months I have been working on developing python application to automate the web importer task for our web application, and after completing import job an email needs to be sent to support team with the importer status.

Movable Type Movable Type is premium publishing and blogging software which is developed using perl.It is used for developing blog websites, content managed websites along with  social communities. Latest version of Movable Type runs on perl 5.8.1 or above.

Common Gateway Interface The Common Gateway Interface(CGI) is a standard protocol for web communication between HTTP server or web server and a CGI sciprts/programs. In other terms, CGI is specification for data transmission between web server and CGI programs. Basically, web servers are the one who implements the CGI specifications.

In this part of perl basics, we will going to learn about perl control statements such as if, elseif, and else statements etc. If, elseif, and else statements are conditional statements and are executed only if certain condition met.

In this part 2 section of perl basics, we will learn about perl scalars, arrays, and hashes which are heart of the perl language syntax.  In C, Java and C++ programming languages we call varibales which holds or stores data, here in perl we call it scalars.  Scalars are defined with prefixed ‘$’ symbols as [...]