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CGI Programming 101
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CGI Programming 101 will show you how to add guestbooks, page counters, shopping carts and other interactive elements to your website. CGI programming is easy to learn; if you know HTML, you can learn CGI. You don't need any prior programming experience. See what people are saying about CGI Programming 101!
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Welcome to CGI for the Total Non-Programmer
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This tutorial will walk you through the basics of creating CGIs with Perl on a Unix platform. Unlike other tutorials I've read, this does not assume you know anything about CGIs, Perl, or Unix.
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CGI Tutorial
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The tutorial was written by me, Nik Silver, and is a follow-on from the Perl tutorial derived from the workshop run recently at the School of Computer Studies at the University of Leeds. It does therefore assume a knowledge of Perl, as well as how to create a basic Web page.
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A guide to HTML and CGI scripts
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A program / script file executed on the web server in response to a user request. A CGI script is usually executed to process the data sent when a form filled in by a user is sent back to the web server.
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The Most Simple Intro to CGI
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This tutorial is not intended to be an indepth or a 100% technically correct treatise. It is an explanation in plain English by analogy of how HTML and CGI-BIN requests are handled. This is the first installment of a series. Oh, I swear that no animals were hurt in the making of this web page.
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CGI Made Really Easy
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This primer focuses on writing CGI scripts to process HTML forms on the Web. It skips some details, but can bring you up to speed fast (literally an hour or less), and covers 90% of real-world situations. When you feel the need, check out the full CGI spec. For help with writing HTML forms, see this tutorial fragment, or this documentation at NCSA.
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The Common Gateway Interface
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The Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, is a standard for external gateway programs to interface with information servers such as HTTP servers.
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CGI Script Installation Tutorial
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This article is to make your CGI-Installation work a lot easier. I have written it from my experience and I've tried to make this tutorial a guide for CGI/Perl script installation. You can learn everything you want to know about integrating your site with CGI scripts and hence about interactivity. You can skip some of the sections in the beginning, if you know the basics of CGI.
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CGI/Perl programming tips
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Here is small collection of our own CGI/Perl programming tips and tutorials. We have witten these with the novice in mind, so expect these to be as simple and as basic as possible. While we did write these materials with the beginner in mind, note that some basic knowledge of Perl programming is already assumed.
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CGI Programming FAQ
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The Table of contents starts at 0 (preamble). Older (pre-HTML 3) or broken browsers may start it at 1: apologies for any confusion
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CGI Programming on the World Wide Web
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This book is out of print, but it has been made available online through the O'Reilly Open Books Project. Be sure to check out the second edition of this book.
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How CGI Scripting Works
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In this article, we will answer your questions about CGI scripting and show you how to create your own scripts. You'll also learn a bit about Web servers in the process. Let's get started!
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