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CGI Email Script

Hiroshi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:33:03 +0000

Sometimes we have to work with servers which do not support PHP or other programming languages other then CGI. And we know how much email facility is important for a website! So for this case here is the CGI emailing script which will send a detailed email. This example uses three files. HTML Form Page [...]

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CGI Complete Website Search Script

Hiroshi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:23:16 +0000

Here is the CGI script for complete website search. It searches all static pages and text in given pages. Great script, it you have static website and just want to add a ready to use thorough search of your website. Author information of this script is in downloadable files. Installation Just edit these variables in pl [...]

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CGI Scripts – Users Online And Today’s Hits

Hiroshi — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:10:50 +0000

Following are two CGI scripts ready to use. ‘Current Users online’ and ‘Today’s Hits’ of a website made in CGI. Download and use. Always Remember with CGI 775 and 777. File executable permissions and folder data storage permissions. Upload cgi files in ascii mode of ftp. (Transfer mode–>ASCII) Always give files and folders executable permissions [...]

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Basics of CGI

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:43:21 +0000

Some basics and essentials of CGI which you must know before writing your first CGI code or your CGI scripts won’t work. Always Remember CHMOD that is the file permissions. Set it using your favorite ftp software. CGI script file it must be 755 and at folder which contains CGI scripts also 755 but for [...]

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Variable, Standard and Strict CGI

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:15:21 +0000

Lets discuss deeply variables in CGI, standards of CGI and strict syntax of CGI scripts. Variable and Standard #!/usr/bin/perl -wt use CGI qw(:standard); use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser); use strict; my $email = "someone\@server.com"; my $url = "http://www.someurl.com"; print header; print start_html("Scalars"); print <<EndHTML; <h2>Hello</h2><p>My e-mail address is $email, and my web url is <a href="$url">$url</a>.</p> [...]

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Using Variables in CGI

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:09:01 +0000

This is an example of simple CGI variable usage in scripts. The ordinary way and the extraordinary and right way. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use CGI; my $q = CGI::Vars(); print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"; print "\n"; print "Versions:\n=================\n"; print "perl: $]\n"; print "CGI: $CGI::VERSION\n"; print "\n"; print "CGI Values:\n=================\n"; for my $k (sort keys %$q) { [...]

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First CGI Script

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:04:12 +0000

The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server, commonly a web server. Lets write our first simple CGI script. #!/usr/bin/perl -wt print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<h2>Some text to display here</h2>"; First CGI Script is a post from: TechMynd.

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Multiple Line HTML Printing in CGI

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:01:01 +0000

This is an example of writing multiple lines of text without using print statements in CGI. #!/usr/bin/perl -wt print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<endmarker; line1 line2 line3 You can write multiple lines of text without using multiple print statements by this, etc. endmarker Download simple CGI print example Download multiple CGI print example Multiple Line HTML [...]

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Printing Html in CGI

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:57:14 +0000

Examples of printing HTML in CGI scripts. Simple html output from cgi script #!/usr/bin/perl -wt print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print "<html><head><title>Hello World</title></head>\n"; print "<body>\n"; print "<h2>Hello, world!</h2>\n"; print "</body></html>\n"; HTML in CGI Second Example #!/usr/bin/perl -wt print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; print <<EndOfHTML; <html><head><title>Test Page</title></head> <body> <h2>Hello, world! This is cgi and html printing</h2> </body></html> EndOfHTML print end_html; [...]

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HTML Output from CGI script

Hiroshi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:54:15 +0000

Writing HTML in CGI script is pretty easy. Try the following CGI script. #!/usr/bin/perl -wt print <<htmlPrinting; Content-type: text/html\n\n <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body> <table width="700" height="200" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td align="center" bgcolor="#290000"><font color="#FFFFFF" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My first programme in CGI. </font></td> [...]

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Basics of a CGI Program

Hiroshi — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:26:52 +0000

A CGI is simply a program that is called by the webserver, in response to some action by a web visitor. This might be something simple like a page counter, or a complex form-handler. Shopping carts and e-commerce sites are driven by CGI programs. So are ad banners; they keep track of who has seen [...]

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