Top Rated Scripts | CGI & Perl

HiFriend is a free, cross-platform email-a-friend / tell-a-friend solution for websites, which allows web users to invite their friends to visit any webpage in your website. One installation of HiFriend is sufficient to drive a whole website, and allows a user to contact multiple recipients at once. Includes external HTML templates for easy editing of the appearance of all client facing elements, comments section for your users to send a message with the referal, and the ability to customise your own message too.

Metadot Portal Server is a Perl/MySQL-based open source portal server that provides content and community management user customizable news page dashboard like My Yahoo. Users can have their own public website area to share information. Includes built-in features like files management, discussion, calendar, poll, HTML editor and XML/RSS syndication, user & group management and monitoring tools, look and feel customization (CSS and templates). It can be extended in functionality by adding Metadot Gizmos plug-ins.

Perldesk is a fully featured help desk system that is an ideal solution for companies with more than one technician who support several users. Main features include: Email submissions, staff logging, knowledge base, user registration, and many more.

This script was created to utilize Amazon.com's Web Services to provide a real-time listing of books or other items on your site that provide links for your visitors to purchase these items from Amazon.com using your affiliate code. This script parses Amazon.com's XML feed to provide search results and bestseller listings in HTML for your visitors.

Casthat is a Web-based news aggregator. It lets you syndicate the XML/RSS file to your own website on the fly. Casthat supports all version of RSS even if the RSS file is not valid.

Offers 2 affiliate programs written in Perl: Commission based (supports PayPal and Search Engine friendly links) and click-thru programs. Both products are available as "dealware".

CalendarScript is a fully customizable event-publishing solution. It gives you everything you'll need to begin, then gives you the power to redefine it to fit your specific needs. With one of the simplest installs ever created, you'll have a calendar of events up and running quickly - for your company, intranet, club, church, organization, school, family, or just for your own personal web site.

A powerful, easy to setup full-text search engine system with automatic spidering and indexing. Can search all text files of your or any other website (both http and https protocols are supported). Highlighted matches in nice looking, fully customizable result ranking lists as well as within the found files. Featuring different categories, Boolean search, phrases, wildcards, selectable search sources, restrictive search options. Supports 20+ languages and 10+ platforms.

This script allows yout to delete all files (in the specified directory) with file dates older than the specified days. Eg. Delete all files older than 30 days - regardless of the permission setting of the files. Can be run manually from browser, telnet or automatically using crontab. Only two variables to edit - the directory and the file age. Latest version supports deletion of files in multiple directories.

Redir is a Perl script that allows you to integrate a web-forward feature into your own domain. You don't have to create files or directories. Every call for "www.yourdomain.com/anyth ing" will be forwarded to another location. (Requires htaccess).

csRandomText is a content management system for displaying blocks of text/html in random order, in true order, or refreshed every 'n' days. Admin page allows you to create multiple instances of text blocks. Update the various text blocks from one location. Possible usages include: Customer kudos (as shown on our main page), Quote of the day, Joke of the day, Weekly Recipes, Daily scriptures, or even use it to rotate advertisement banners.

EIGHT (Easy Image Gallery) is a Perl script that does most of the gallery maintenence work for you. All you need to do is create the gallery directory and load the images and thumbnails and eight will link them up and display the thumbs on index pages. EIGHT also includes support for multiple galleries, an integrated slideshow (using javascript), a simple guestbook, a simple image search engine and gallery statistics. You can also create captions for each image and you can personalize each gallery if you create the gallery's .dat file. EIGHT uses an HTML templating system, so you can customize the HTML without having to edit the CGI code.

WebCalendar is a powerful group calendaring and scheduling system. It is a web based application that makes it easy to publish and manage calendar events on the internet. WebCalendar includes an impressive set of business class features such as Multiple View, Shared/Group Calendars, Schedule Reminders, Overlaid Calendars, Attendance Confirmation, Multiple Authors, Public Calendars, Overlapping Event Checking, Import from VCalendar, Task Manager, Address Book, Diary System, Multilingual, and more.

A WAP based POP3 email client. WAP Getmail allows to read mail from POP server. WAP Getmail automatically converts codings: KOI-8R, UTF-8 and WIN-1251 to latin font.