Perl CGI Test programs

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This site has test programs (mostly in PERL) for Common Gateway Interface programming.

1. mail (CGI source) -- test page for sending mail via a CGI script.
2. hcal (CGI source) -- test page for sending/returning data to/from a program.
3. env (CGI source) -- display all ENV variables that describes the web connection.
4. logmaker (CGI source) -- example of how to create log files.
5. themefinder (CGI source) -- themefinder test interface.

Web Resources for Perl CGI scripts

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Getting started

1. http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ -- Common Gateway Interface Documentation
   1. http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/intro.html -- Introduction to CGI scripts
   2. http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/primer.html -- Primer to CGI scripts
2. http://www.perl.com/pub/doc/FAQs/cgi/perl-cgi-faq.html -- Perl CGI FAQ
3. http://perl.com/perl/everything_to_know/easy_objects.html -- Easy Intro to Using Perl Objects
4. Perl documentation:
   1. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/00modlist.long.html, http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/index.html -- Perl 5 Module List
   2. http://www.cpan.org/doc/manual/html/pod/index.html -- Documentation for supporting functions
   3. http://www.cpan.org/doc/manual/html/lib/index.html -- Documentation for libraries, modules, and pragmas:
   4. http://www.cpan.org/doc/manual/html/utils/index.html -- Documentation for utilities:
   5. http://www.cpan.org/doc/manual/html/x2p/index.html -- Documentation for translators:
5. http://www.perl.com/CPAN/misc/cpan-faq.html -- CPAN FAQ. CPAN is used via the command "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to update the CGI module and get the CGI::Forms module.

Example script websites

1. http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/ -- Matt's Free Perl CGI Scripts.
2. http://www.cgi101.com/scripts/ -- Cookbook of Canned CGIs.
3. http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/perlWWW/ -- perl resources dealing with the WWW.
4. Yahoo CGI page