Instant Web Scripts With CGI Perl

This book gives Internet programmers useful, professionally-written scripts to use on their Web pages and for customizing individual needs. It includes scripts for e-mail and searching HTML directories, a "Fortune Cookie" generator, a message board system, and a CGI-based database, as well as an HTML Guestbook and electronic classified ads page. The CD-ROM contains two well known libraries for Perl 4 and 5, cgi-lib.pl and cgi.pm, and custom libraries created by the authors. A CD-ROM providing professionally written scripts that can be used instantly on Web pages or customized. Chapters explain how each script is set up and how they were programed, with sections on installing and using scripts, CGI libraries, databases, HTML, CGI- based graphics and animation, and miscellaneous applications. The CD-ROM contains scripts, Perl libraries, and custom libraries. For intermediate-level CGI developers with knowledge of HTML and the CGI/Perl environment.