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Beginner's Guide to CGI Scripting with Perl - Designed to help novice programmers learn Perl/CGI programming. Discusses a form-to-email gateway and guestbook. Free source code.

A CGI program that prints every environment variable it knows - Discusses a simple CGI program that reads/prints the %ENV hash from a CGI program. Useful for understanding and debugging CGI problems. Free source code.

A simple Perl daily quote server - Discusses a Perl/CGI program that generates an inspirational quote each day, based on the day of the month. Uses Perl/CGI and server-side includes (SSI's). Free source code.

A tour of HTML forms and CGI scripts - An introduction to HTML Forms and CGI scripts. Reviews some of the common form elements and describes how a simple CGI script interacts with a web form.

Ada's Introduction to CGI - A simple introductory CGI tutorial.

CGI file uploading - Uploading files through a browser is not difficult if you let the CGI.pm module do the dirty work for you. Free source code.

CGI for the total non-programmer - Walks you through the basics of creating CGI programs with Perl on a Unix platform. Assumes you know nothing about CGI's, Perl, or Unix.

CGI programming 101 - Intended for anyone who knows HTML, but doesn't know Perl or CGI programming.

CGI Scripting in Perl: Error Handling - Discusses error-handling in Perl/CGI scripts, including "die" and CgiDie methods.

CGI troubleshooting tips - CGI background, MIME types, environment variables, and a description of error messages you may get.

CGI-101: Chapter 3: CGI Environment Variables - Discusses environment variables, including the %ENV hash, Get and Post methods, QUERY_STRING, and simple form processing.

CGI-101: Chapter 4: Processing Forms - How to process forms in Perl/CGI code, including a discussion of URL-encoded strings, and the substitute (s) and translate (tr) commands.

CGI-101: Chapter 5: Advanced Forms - Discusses error-checking and handling checkboxes, radio buttons, and SELECT fields. Demonstrates a sample survey form.

CGI/Perl tips, tricks, and hints - Advanced topics such as Here Documents, File I/O, locking a file, redirecting to another page, and a little bit about security and debugging.

Creating a mailing list using Perl - How to combine an HTML Form with a Perl script to enable visitors to leave their email addresses in a file on your server.

Creating Web Forms - Step by step explanation to creating web forms using a standard technique with CGI::QuickForm.

Flexible CGI Output with HTML Templates - Perlfect::Template is developed to aid the writing of CGI scripts that produce HTML output. Put HTML template code in a separate file with special markup tags.

Giving 'more' - Details what you can do if you have many screens of data to return to the end user, but only want to show one screen at a time.

Handling forms in Perl with CGI.pm - Discusses a comment/survey form using the CGI.pm module. Free source code.

How do I send e-mail from a Perl/CGI program on a Unix system? - A method you can use to send e-mail from a Perl/CGI program on a Unix system using sendmail.