Writing Perl Modules for CPAN

Chapter 1: CPAN

Figure 1-1: World map from http://www.mirrors.cpan.org showing CPAN server locations

Figure 1-2: The CPAN Network Topology

Figure 1-3: Entry screen for http://www.cpan.org.

Figure 1-4: CPAN modules menu

Figure 1-5: The start of Database Interfaces section in the Module List

Figure 1-6: http://www.search.cpan.org entry screen

Chapter 3: Module Design and Implementation

Figure 3-1: BOA::Logger POD formatted as HTML by pod2html

Figure 3-2: UML class diagram example

Chapter 4: CPAN Module Distributions

Figure 4-1: Directory structure created by h2xs –XA –n Data::Counter

Figure 4-2: Distribution directory structure using a test directory

Chapter 5: Submitting Your Module to CPAN

Figure 5-1: The PAUSE namespace registration form

Figure 5-2: The PAUSE file upload form

Figure 5-3: The PAUSE file upload completed screen

Chapter 6: Module Maintenance

Figure 6-1: rt.cpan.org author home page

Chapter 11: CGI Application Modules for CPAN

Figure 11-1: Bulletin board message list screen

Figure 11-2: Bulletin board message viewer screen

Figure 11-3: Bulletin board message entry screen

Figure 11-4: Bulletin board message search screen

Figure 11-5: State machine for BBS application

Figure 11-6: Message entry screen in action