Top Rated Scripts | CGI & Perl

Offers true database searching capabilities, scalability to tens of thousands of ads, encryption-based security (others use insecure plain-text administrative passwords), configuration options that include the entire HTML layout and even inserting your own advertising banners, portability to virtually any web server, a Secure Logon system that allows users to logon once and have the program "remember" them from screen to screen, a short results ad table format that allows your users to instantly resort their search results on the fly, and a nice navigation bar that allows your users to easily jump to other groups of results (instead of always having to click on the "Next" button).

Web developers often need ways of speeding up the development process, without spending thousands of dollars for software. Here's how to build an easy to use flat-file database in Perl and access it via a web page.

World Wide Messenger allows you to run a Hotmail� type service using only one POP box. No extra modules required, not even Sendmail. Features: Access mail with mail clients, calendar, auto-hyperlinking, storage meter, Text to speech, full incoming/outgoing MIME compatibility, mail encryption, rich text editor, template driven, multiple templates, unlimited user folders, complete admin section, multiple domain support, contact list, signatures, POP Checker, WAP enabled, and more.

A powerful and flexible photo classified ads program that allows your users to upload their own photos to be included in their ads. Admin can set maximum file size of uploaded photos, maximum width and height in pixels, and can even disable photo uploads if necessary. Offers four different formats for display of photos, including full size, as thumbnails, as an icon that links to the photo, or not at all. Contains many other powerful features as well, including Privacy Mail, Keyword Notify, e-mail address harvesting, optional banner ads, ad review, powerful search functions, context-sensitive help, and fee-based options.

This Picture Of The Day (POTD) script allows you to automatically display a new picture everyday without any uploading or editing of HTML pages.

This script is a professional and highly secured script for password protection and managing the accounts from your members page. Features include: Option to auto approve members, fast form fields checking, tracks sharing passwords, logs all failed and good logins, and an administrator control panel.

This message board emulates one of the major Webmaster Resource message boards and works very well. Along with great admin functions it is truly an easy to maintain board.

Guestbook*Star is a software tool that lets you create a guest-book and its CGI with no programming experience. Features: Create your own guestbook with original fields or choose from four pre-designed guestbook templates (Personal, Social, Academic, Professional); Convert an existing guestbook style form into a fully functional guestbook on your website; Email notification for every guestbook entry; Customisable background, colour, title and fields; Automatically add the user to your mailing list; Send a personalised thank you note via email; Specifiy mandatory fields; and more.

mySpreadsheet is spreadsheet software that runs on a webserver that can helps you centralize, manage, and share your spreadsheet data using a standard web browser. With mySpreadsheet, multiple groups/individuals in your organization can collaborate on individual spreadsheets that resides on your webserver.

Personal and group calendaring system provides you and your members with the ability to create and share a calendar with others while maintaining a private schedule. This increases the interactivity of your website and guarantees more involved and engaged visitors. Shares an integrated backend - account management, billing, advertising, templates and administration - with over 25 other pluggable software modules. You can add grow your site as your needs expand all using a single integrated suite. No more multiple logins and inconsistencies.

Alert Manager was created to run an alert command, monitor the status of that command's output, and guarantee that if something goes wrong it won't go unnoticed. Alert Manager has been successfully deployed in several fortune 500 companies for guaranteed alert delivery and many other things. It has a very flexable configuration file that allows creation of "alert chains" - chains of commands, each with their own fallback command, failure command, timeout, retry counter, and other advanced options. It has a method for passing messages from the command line into the various commands defined in the configuration file, and many other useful features.

The Ranking Report tool is a small utility script that allows you to query the search engines to see how highly your website ranks. This query can be based upon a search term. Not only does this allow you to see how well you rank in your given fields but also how well your competitors rate and who your competitors are in any chosen field or search terms.

RapidChat is a unique style chatting system which has a lot of flexibility. It is based on the very popular NUTS style chat system which allows configurable rooms, levels and items to be given out to the users.

The WWS Classifieds is high quality classified ads software.Unlimited categories and subcategories, edit and delete ad, image upload, multilanguage support, own e-mail ad system. Free, paid, banner Ads. Fully customizable HTML template. Anti-SPAM and anti-AUTO FILLING protection. The script includes a WAP and I-mode interface to allow your visitors to view classified ads on their mobile devices.

SoftSite Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use software portal solution written in Perl with full SSI (Server Side Includes) support. SoftSite Pro can be used in both the Windows and Unix/Linux environments and is remarkably easy to set up since it contains a built-in installer that automatically detects and configures the correct paths/URLS and installs the script for you. Almost everything in SoftSite Pro is completely automated saving you valuable time and money.

This Tell A Friend Script is a great viral marketing tool. This script allows for users to specify a quick note to their friend, a super easy installation, an easily customizable message to be sent, and shows a link back to the exact page the visitor was at when they submitted the tell a friend script form.

Sweet Counter is a very useful multi-page text counter. It has been tested on some extremely high traffic sites (10,000+ per day) and has been proven to be stable. All hits are recorded in open log file (HTML) which can be viewed from any web browser.

eNews is advanced management tools for on-line news articles and announcements publishing. This scripts support for unlimited number of News themes, for each, you can define multiple moderator. Each moderator can add a news or validate, edit, remove public submit for his news theme. eNews allows 1 or more administrator to administrate all news themes, create, modify and delete accounts for different moderators and news themes. News can be displayed by CGI or this scripts can generate HTML pages, of course the output is 100% customizeable (using template).

This program features registration, moderation, multiple currency billing using Paypal, Nochex or Clickbank, auto ad expiry and renewal, unlimited nested categories, extensive email functions and more.

New generation of banner exchange programs. Has advanced targeting, multibanner support, multilanguage support, smart cheat analyzing system. Supports rich media ads, ability to install modules for popup, text, swimbanner, startup exchanges. Also counter and mailists modules available. Software has backup functions, scheduled email stats option and integrated help system (with FAQ/Knowledge base system).