Most Popular Scripts | CGI & Perl

textconverter.cgi is a small cgi script which allows you to easily convert text files to html templates, whether they are stored on your desktop or your website. Every text file will be stored in its own html template. It will also create a index html file from which all templates are linked. so you just have to link to this index html from within your website. Ability to customize head code and title, also link, background, and font color for every generated html template.

IMDpoll is a polling script that is small, fast, powerful, and best of all, easy to use. It features: Support for infinitely many polls; Each poll can have unlimited options; Optional support for comments; Easy setup; Easy and powerful administrator panel; Extensive template system, Every bit of html customizable.

Get the lowdown on .htaccess and how to use it to customize your site's error pages, password protect directories, deny user(s) by IP, prevent hot linking of your site's images, and more.

GTCounter is a counter script that can show the overall number of visitors and the number of visitors currently online at your site. The counter can be added using SSI, as a frame or from a different script. Includes the ability to block IP addresses, different templates possible.

Bookmark Traffic Booster is a free Perl script to encourage visitors to bookmark your web site. The script will give you JavaScript HTML code to put on the web page(s) you want your visitors to bookmark. The script will also display the current unique and total visitors you receive as a result of this script in action.

This script allows you to send emails from any computer, with up to 10 attachments. Unlike most attachemnt emailing scripts, you do not need complex libraries to install, everything is self contained. It uses Sendmail so virtually every *nix server will be able to run this script.

New version (major upgrade) features names for links, new control panel, password protection. LinkJump Pro is a link-based redirection script. Features: Hide your affiliate links behind grace, clean notation; Analyze your web promotion effectiveness, giving each ad link its unique ID and name Create drop-down menus for your links, See where your visitors go from your site; View your links by their popularity.

The excerpt from Perl in a Nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates), provides an overview of mod_perl including how to install it on your machine, how to improve CGI performance using mod_perl, as well as a listing of the most commonly used mod_perl modules.

Frequently Asked Questions is one of the most popular elements of a web site and these pages are being updated frequently. FAQ Manager makes this job easy. Using the password protected admin page, you can add/modify/delete questions and answers. You can also change the order of the questions. FAQ Manager also supports more than one FAQs in your site. The design of the FAQ is highly customizable. Using tags, the script knows where to place the FAQ texts and does not conflict with your design or other elements. The installation should not take more than 5 minutes or your time.

A feature-rich web-based email system that offers your visitors accounts accessible via their browers or with the addition of a plugin, through their desktop clients as well. It includes all the features you'd expect to find in a quality email system like user customizable folders, full MIME support for sending/receiving of attachments, global and user-based email filters, address book and nickname support, supports sending/viewing of html mail, advertisements can be added to all outgoing mail easily and much more.

Here's how to get started using SQL and SQL-driven databases from Perl. Main topics include: General information about relational databases, About SQL, What DBI is For, Example of How to Use DBI, Cached Queries, and Transactions.

iVote is a fast visual poll/image voting system written in Perl that uses MySQL on backend. Current features include: Create tables, Add entries, Delete entries, Statistics report, Voter/display page w/preview, Administration screen, Themes (default only so far), One or multiple vote support, Sort by any field on admin screen, Refresh button remembers sort parameters, and more.

BannerPlus Pro incorporates all of the features of the freeware version plus many additional features. Automatic email to new, existing and dormant members, Automatic email to exchange administrator when new member signs up, Extra credits show in stats as well as earned credits, Zoned banners, Optional deletion of all dormant members, Optional Link Exchange style mini banner to the left of member banners, Multiple date formats, Separate stats and member update functions, Optional personal data collection, Banner uploads with size checking, Optionally force all banners to be the same size, Totals displayed in admin All Members function, Function to display the most popular (top 10) banners by click-through percentage, Separate function to display HTML which should appear on member sites, Allows multiple banners on a single page, Forgotten password reminder facility and more.

A versatile survey script which can handle any survey form with more than one input(so long as it doesn't have inputs with the same name which can be multiply-selected) and sort them at runtime. It can also handle multiple surveys. This means you now only need one script to run as many surveys as you have space for.

This will detect browsers and send the user to four different sub pages. Netscape users will receive the Netscape page. Internet Explorer will receive the Internet Explorer page. Lynx users will receive the Text Only page. And, finally, if you are using something else, the CGI will send you to the Average page.