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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 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 alogn with a CGI script illustrates how to accept and parse (turns it into something readable and usable) the form data. This case study piece is heavily commented due to the ambiguous nature of the perl code.

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 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.

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.

This online tutorial guids through the steps to place a guestbook CGI onto your system. This tutorial deals with UNIX servers and UNIX commands for configuration, and assumes that you are able to Telnet into the system, Create directories, and Change directory modifications. Source codes for the guestbook script and sample HTML files are provided on the Web site.

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.

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

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 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.

For Perl beginners or as a reference. Short examples with easy to follow explanations. No long examples with bulky html forms. If you want to split an array, you get the code to split an array.

Learn Perls basic syntax. Learn how to create and manipulate various different types of variables. Do conditional tests and learn all of the common loops.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.