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Whats New by CGI World is your solution for informing website visitors of updates & possible upcoming / daily events that you can post to your whats new area and/or have viewed on an existing HTML page. It also features News archives & the ability to attach a viewer feedback forum to a news group for users to interact and respond to news you post.

Adds and retrives users' threaded posts. All the text that is to be displayed on the main page is saved in the main database file. Multiple forums can be run from one script, by using a separate directory for each set of datafiles. If users' browser supports 'frames', the script will create the main window and a bottom window to display full text of a thread, refered to as 'full' screen and 'split' screen. User can switch between full/split if frames-capable browser.

A fully featured discussion board program with easy to install, modify/delete posted message (by author), powerful administrative functions, two level administration, email notification, search on subject and content, integrated file uploading, configurable threading, message rating, visit counter, user registration, modifiable user profile/password, moderating, banning of forbidden words and many more features

This script will operate a rotating banner ad system on your website. Bannermatic comes in 3 flavors: Server-Side-Includes based, HTTP-Cookie-Powered and IP Address based. Also a banner manager script available

The Hukilau Search Engine, is a CGI script written in Perl designed to do a keyword search of all the web pages in a directory. It is designed to be easy to install and is for small to medium sites. The program will only search for pages in one directory, and will return all pages if the keyword is the same as an HTML tag.

Htgrep is a CGI script written in Perl that allows you to query any document accessible to your HTTP server on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis. Htgrep is a generic front-end to htgrep.pl, a Perl package that makes it relatively easy to implement simple search engines for the WWW. Htgrep allows you to pass all parameters to the search package as part of the URL, so a forms interface can be used to set the parameters.

SiteSearch gives you the ability to search your website quickly & easily by the use of the password protected browser based administration area. Set the path of the directory you want searched, set the files & directories you want searched, and also the directories & files you do not want searched. SiteSearch returns the results of a search by displaying 200 words from the text the search criteria was found in, along with the webpage title, last modified date & file size. SiteSearch is a great tool for the average website of less than 500 pages.

BS Counter is a web counter/tracker written in Perl. Features include: blocking of multiple hits from the same user, insertion of commas, can be set to text-based or graphical mode, supports multiple counters from the same script, and tracks users' browsers, operating systems, and location. (requires SSI)

This Perl CGI script is a text based access counter which is capable to work on multiple pages at once. SSI required.

Count+Stat provides the power, and expansibility of a high priced statistics program. This solid running perl script tells you important user information such as IP numbers, refers, clients, and time. With Count+Stat you can see where your users are coming from, and thus you can tell what they like, and overall who they are. If you get all kinds of people from a certain website, you can visit it and see exactly where your users come from!

Commerce Pro has been developed with a smooth, easy to understand interface for the end user, your clients, while balancing state of the art merchant utilities. It's features include: Runs via SSL/or normal HTTP, Order notification/secure retrieval or mail, Order Log backup utility, Custom HTML Store interface, Easy tax and shipping logic, Easy embed order form cookies, Order receipts to customer, Credit card or mail order stores/or both, and more.

CheckOut! Pro features include 3 shopping interfaces - Java, Enhanced CGI, and Simple Browser modes, vendor defined foreign language support, including international currencies, definable multi-option buttons, and shopper selectable on the fly shipping choices, instant shipping calculation, instant tax calculation, immediate quantity changes - all without leaving your store!

Portal Analyzer is a convenient solution to tracking your websites popularity. Its a lot like having an invisible hit counter on every page. It produces daily reports telling you exactly how many unique visitors you received and which page they entered by. This way you can tell not only how many people visit your site but which pages attract the most visitors. Works behind the scenes by crontab or can be exectuted from the browser to provide the easy to follow reports. Results are tabulated by most popular to least popular entry page. Unlike access counters which are frequently not accurate this works off of your server logs to provide absolute accuracy in counting.

Add A Link is a Free-For-All-Link (FFAL) script with features including built-in autoresponder, error check and linklock. If linklock is on, every link submitted by user will be moderated by the admistrator wheares linklock being off all the submitted links will be immediately added to your page.

The Database Doctor allows you to manage and display text file databases of any field size. This powerful script can easily be used for a directory of addresses, products, or any list you can imagine. The display script is very customizable, but automated so that it works right out of the box as well. Version 3.0 features include column settings for required fields, unique fields, data types, default input and more. Easy forms for adding new items, preview, editing, deleting, search, sort by field, and will even prepare a page of your data for printing.

Discus Pro is a commercial add-on to the popular Discus WWW discussion board software package. Some additional features in Discus Pro include: Private reading topics, User self-registration (automatic, queued, or e-mail verified), Automatic archiving and pruning by conversation length, Manual archiving and pruning by date, IP banning, IP-based authentication, Message editing (users edit own messages within 30 minutes), Backup and restore built in, Attachment uploading (documents, text files, binaries), Log analysis tools and Preferences of users stored to control board options.

Webdata is an easy database program specifically for the world wide web. It uses your web browser to add, modify, or delete entries into your database. All you have to do is upload 2 files to your Unix server, and type 'perl install.pl'. It will ask you some questions about your server, what password you want, and what field names you want. That's it. It generates a maintenance page called 'admin.html' from which you can immediatly begin adding records. Guests will be able to search by any combination of criteria to suit their needs.

If you use DBM files, this program makes them easy to edit. Each value stored in a DBM file is treated as several "fields", delimited by a user-defined string-- in effect, supporting multiple columns within the one-column DBM format. This program displays a DBM database as a table, and provides auto-sized forms to add or edit records. You can edit your existing DBM files or create new ones. Multi-user access is safe.

DB_Browser is a CGI tool for developers working with a relational database. It easily facilitates searching, editing, and adding tables within a database, as well as directly querying the database using SQL in a web-browser form. While it can be used as a regular interface to database data itself, it works well as a supplemental tool for developers creating their own primary interface.

The DB LiNKeR is a database management system with many features designed especially for the webmaster. It utilizes a flat file database system capable of storing thousands and thousands of records for fast retrieval. DB LiNKeR makes database administration EASY!