Rob Pengelly — Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:54:00 +0000

I first noticed facts at http://www.webdog.org , and asked if he would release the text file of facts. As i expected he said no, so I just looked on the 'net for "Stupid Facts" or "Pointless Facts" and put together a huge (300+ I think) collection of facts. I wrote a simple script in perl that prints a random fact, and will put them on future webpages of mine. Reloads to view more facts= more banner views .

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Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:28:00 +0000

Mess me up even more ha ha ha. That wasn't very nice . Thanks everyone!
P.S. a hippo can really open it's mouth that far? Also where do u get all those crazy statistical things?
Thanks,
~Park~

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Rob Pengelly — Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:21:00 +0000

Japhy, thats kinda what I mean't but didn't come out correctly, mkean't there is no difference, because they cannot be compared

Fairhousing, I think saying "Perl/Cgi" may mess sixflass111 up even more . The bulletin board was done in Perl

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fairhousing — Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:11:00 +0000

the ubb forums were perl/cgi last i checked.

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Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:48:00 +0000

Thanks, what language do I need to know to make a bulletin board thing like this for my site. Thanks
~Park~

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Malte — Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:32:00 +0000

Perl is a programming language, nobody said this really clear before.

CGI is an interface to execute programs on the server side and handle their output like a normal HTML document. It basically does nothing else but execute the program, provide some environmental information (HTTP referrer, script name, remote host, etc.), and reroot the script input source and the output channel.

Perl is used so much, because its very strong in text processing, and HTML is text

The best way to understand the difference between CGI and Perl is this: You could use Perl to program the CGI interface but you couldnt use CGI to make a Perl compiler.

Malte

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japhy — Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:41:00 +0000

robp - good answer, but that sentence "so there really is no difference" is kinda bad

There is a major difference between CGI and Perl -- as big a difference between cars and apples.

The only way that ANY programming language is related to CGI is that it can be used to make CGI-enabled programs.

So that's that.

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Rob Pengelly — Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:07:00 +0000

CGI is Common Gateway Interface, which is just a method for servers to read info from documents, users, databases etc and write to files, databases etc.

Almost any programming language can be used to make CGI programs, but Perl seems to be the most popular one.

So, there really is no difference between CGI and Perl because they are two different things.

Maybe someone can explain this better.

As for learning, I guess you are on Windows? if so, you can download ActivePerl at http://www.activestate.com and test scripts on your own O/S. It also comes with TONES of documents that help teach you perl.

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fairhousing — Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:03:00 +0000

i did a search on the differ engines and asked questions in forums and learned enought to make simple scripts and customize any pre-made script. there really doesn't seem to be one resource on the net that's got it all when try to learn perl.

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mellinger — Sat, 18 Dec 1999 13:25:00 +0000

You can find some great tutorials at http://www.cgi-resources.com They have a whole ton there. Also, you may want to check out http://www.perlarchive.com as they also have some good tutorials. Sorry, but I don't know the difference between perl and cgi.

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