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Rubes_sw · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 9:54 am Post subject: CGI Help

I am trying to get my head around CGI !

Can anyone give me a simple source code on how to do CGI?

I mean, If for example

I created a CGI program that when a user fills in a form on a web page, it sends the data to the cgi program. It performs the operation and then sends an email or give them back a answer or code or whatever??

Thanks for help in advance

marty · Professional Member Joined: 10 May 2001 Posts: 789

Here's a couple of links on VDSWORLD that could interest you:

CGI Article
http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=1

CGI Guestbook (vds source code)
http://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=113

vdsstudio.dllhttp://www.vdsworld.com/index.php?page=download&fileid=20
Can be used to create CGI progs with VDS. And if your a registered user of VDS it's free on S.A.D.E. web site in the registered users area...

Also...good CGI good sites I go too:
http://www.perl.com
http://cgi.resourceindex.com/
http://www.scriptsearch.com/
Hope this helps...

Very Happy

Zoltar · VDS Pirate Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 91

I know, I 'm not in the subject,

but do someone know
any free web hosting for cgi's exe ?

Dr. Dread · Posted: Tue Apr 09, 2002 3:48 pm Post subject:

PGWARE · **Web Host** Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 1564

You can't run vds cgi's on a unix server, the server must be Windows based (windows nt, 2000). There are many hosts on the internet that offer this service but none that I know of that are free. If you are on a budget try using Parcom (http://www.parcom.net), you can get a Windows 2000 account for about $4 a month and use VDS cgi scripts. The scripts themselves are just compiled exe's that generate the output into the users webbrowser.

Garrett · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 12:52 am Post subject:

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 1:04 am Post subject:

You might want to look into PHP also. It's not very far from VDS and goes right into an html file(saved as a .php file). Only hard part I've seen is testing out your pages. You have to use a server with PHP support, unlike html which you can just open on your computer.
I installed Apache and test it with that.
Check out: http://www.webmonkey.com/programming/php/

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 1:05 am Post subject:

Hmm, got an error about not being able to find the French language templet file when I posted..I'm using English.

SnarlingSheep · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 1:06 am Post subject:

Oops..
What happened to being able to delete posts?

Tommy · Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2002 6:24 pm Post subject:

Hi Sheep,

Thanks for letting me know the French language has disappeared. I only notice by now that I forgot finishing all the language re-uploads, I must've felt asleep during the process. Embarassed

I'll try to get them all uploaded again.

About deleting posts, you seem to be right, it doesn't seem to be possible anymore. You can always contact a Team Member though to have your own posts deleted.

Best regards,

Tommy

Zoltar · VDS Pirate Joined: 26 Dec 2001 Posts: 91

Thanks for the links
I 'll have a look