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This guide will help you upload and run a CGI script on your website. Ideal if you have your own website and starting to think about running some CGI Scripts but not sure where to start

This article begins a series on using Perl in web development scenarios. It starts with a general introduction to Perl, and then takes more in-depth looks at Internet capabilities you can leverage from within Perl programs. Developers who have some familiarity with any other programming language, from BASIC to Pascal to C to JavaScript, will benefit the most from this article; however, readers with no programming background can still follow along and pick up most of the concepts.

Learn how to read from and write to files and how to use STDIN and STDOUT to collect and output data. Then download the example: 'Prime number finder' and improve on it.

This collection of notes and sample codes are based on my personal experiences with Perl on both Unix and Windows systems. Topics covered include binary file, CGI, class, client server, DBM file, debug, directory handle, file handle, file test, free, function, hard reference, IIS, Internet, language, Linux, module, MySQL, name space, object, object method, online, open directory, open file, package, Perl, regular expression, RPC::XML, sample codes, SOAP, SOAP::Lite, socket communication, soft reference, split, subroutine, performance, TCP, XML, XML-RPC, XML::Simple.

This site presents complete SSI tutorials and reference pages covering everythyng from SSI basics to more advanced topics. Major topics include: Enabling SSI on Your Server, The ECHO Directive, The INCLUDE Directive, The EXEC and VIRTUAL Directives, Nested Directives, A Real Back Button, and eXtended SSI Directives.

Here is a short guide to DBI (The Perl Database Interface Module). Topics include: General information about relational databases, Example of How to Use DBI, Cached Queries, Transactions, and more.

Goes into how to obtain and install a copy of Perl, creating and executing scripts and some basic syntax.

This page is designed to help novice programmers learn the Perl programming language and will get you started with cgi scripting.Specifically, it's designed to help them learn enough to customize cgi script with a little perl knowledge.This tutorial will walk you through the basics of creating CGIs with Perl.

The interactive tutor allows you to enter your own input and regular expressions and will show you what matches and what not.

This tutorial walks you through step-by-step how to create a simple poll CGI script on your Web site. It provides detailed instructions on how to install it on your server and how to configure the script. Full source code and necessary graphics are also presented.

This tutorial shows how to handle file uploads from web forms in your CGI programs using Perl and CGI.pm.

Find out how to use sendmail (or other similar mail-serving software) to send e-mail from within your script. It presents a very simple program that emails a confirmation to a user that his/her request to subscribe to a newsletter has been accepted.

Assumes no previous experience and covers every aspect of installing a first script sucessfully. Uses a free Poll script as an example. Primarily aimed at FrontPage users but not specific to those using any editor or none.

This is a quick explanation of how URL-Encoded CGI input can be decoded and processed to a useful form.

This compact tutorial introduces what Server Side Includes is, how it works, how to configure .htaccess for SSI to work, a few key SSI Tags, and more.

A short article on using blob fields with perl that does not assume that you are an old hand at perl. The code uses a real world example from the open source megaupload project.

This tutorial will guide you through a gentle introduction to the perl DBI. Learn how to use the Perl DBI to interact with your database; extract data, insert data, update data and more.

An introduction to the basic concepts of socket communications and a tutorial on how to build simple programs tha communicate via TCP/IP sockets. The tutorial is based on two example programs that exchange information.

This tutorial walks you through the basics of creating CGIs with Perl on a Unix platform. At the end of this tutorial you will be able to create Perl programs for counting hits, storing and retrieving guestbook information, and processing secure passwords. You will also gain an understanding of how the Perl programming language works, and you will learn to use variables, IF statements, and loops in Perl.

This is a comprehensive tutorial on how to create your own image counter CGI on your Web page. Main topics include: Make the CGI Directory, Make A Directory for the Counter's Files, Altering the Script For Your Server, Find the Absolute Path, Turn on the CGI/COUNT Directories, Getting A Count On A Page, Locking Out Others, and more. Full source code is available.