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Server Side Includes allow you to write some commonly used code once and have the server insert it into the pages for you. They cut down your development time by more than 100% as you only need to make changes in the include file and it automatically gets updated in all the pages that use the include. Best of all it reduces our FTP time as you only need to FTP one file and not all the pages using the Include. They are a huge time savers. This guide describes what SSIs are, and how to use them.

This article discusses some of the wrong ways for using cookies, and how to use them safely.

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.

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.

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.

This article describes a simple and effective method to format a CGI script's output from HTML templates, by replacing special template directives with dynamic content on the fly.

This 8-page tutorial covers a wide range of Web programming in Perl. It starts off with the basic concepts, and then goes into more advanced topics such as subroutines, variables, functions, operators, control statements, and file manipulation. If you are just starting to learn Perl or want to go back to the basics of Perl, you will find this tutorial very helpful.

To increase the interactiving and ability of the script to "remember" things, we'll need to store some information in separate files. This tutorial shows you how Perl allows you to create, edit and delete files. Some additional, and useful, information on parsing your data is also included.

Learn the basics of programming in Perl. All the basic programming topics are covered with advanced topics like file manipulation and database interaction for adventerous programmers.

This article describes the facilities provided for file handling in Perl. Learn how to operate on files including how to open, read, write and close both binary and text files.

A Beginner's guide to PERL An introduction to PERL which shows users how to parse forms, and use arrays. The tutorial has been designed with comprehensive examples and step by step explanations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Using simple html code, this page shows you how to place the current date and time anywhere on your web pages without using any scripts. Requires SSI.

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.

This tutorial is very helpful for beginners to understand the basic concepts of Perl language. It contains quiz at the end of lesson, that you should take to test your understanding of the tutorial.

This CGI tutorial teaches you the basic skill of perl programming needed by all perl programmers. Topics include subroutines, 'if' statements, qq, error handling, debugging, and using forms.

An introduction to sorting, and how to write your own sorting functions easily with perl. Includes some very common examples of sorts.