http://www.cgidir.com/ CGIDir Articles are provided to serve as guides for helping you find Scripts your needs. en-us DevStart, Inc. 2004 Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:38:47 GMT Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:01:04 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/images/rss/cgidir_articles.gif 130 60 http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070930.html As a webmaster of your site you need to know about installing scripts for yourself. Otherwise you will end up with paying hundreds of dollars for script installations. Radhika Venkata Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:01:04 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070827RegExp3.html For the script to be useful, we need to be able to run it on any web page. Changing the script so that it can do this is fairly straightforward. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:27:41 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070817Perl.html In this part we'll develop a Perl script to process an HTML file. John Dixon Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:10:40 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070816RegularExpressions1.html Like many web content authors, over the past few years I've had many occasions when I've needed to clean up a bunch of HTML files that have been generated by a word processor or publishing package. Initially, I used to clean up the files manually, opening each one in turn, and making the same set of updates to each one. This works fine when you only have a few files to fix, but when you have hundreds or even thousands to do, you can very quickly be looking at weeks or even months of work. A few years ago someone put me on to the idea of using Perl and regular expressions to perform this 'cleaning up' process. John Dixon Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:54:16 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070727C.html To a beginner programmer the biggest question is where to start. Which language to choose from the mighty pool of 100’s of languages. Anuj Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:31:04 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/0707054Tips.html Programming Languages such as ASP, PHP, Perl/CGI, JSP and ColdFusion are used to create a lot of popular scripts (software) to help your website function. Mansi Gupta Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:02:16 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/0706phpframeworks.html These frameworks are free and provide a host of services to satisfy almost all of the web development needs of a web designer or a website owner. Pranav Bhat Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:54:02 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Advanced/articles/070530articleobjectquerylanguage.html NCache lets you create a scalable distributed cache in the middle-tier so you can reduce expensive trips to the database and greatly improve your application performance. Iqbal Khan Thu, 31 May 2007 05:00:00 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Advanced/articles/070511ITX.html Unsolicited commercial email, also commonly known as spam, has developed a negative reputation because it is at best a waste of valuable time and at worst an offensive intrusion into one’s desktop. Jonathan Coupal Fri, 11 May 2007 11:35:05 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070416Hashes.html To secure messages that you send over the internet you can use a hashing algorithm, which transforms a text string into an alphanumeric string. Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:23:03 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/RubyFOSS.html If you haven't tried Ruby yet, you owe it to yourself to begin playing with it. If you value joy, if you value simplicity, if you value beauty, then you owe it to yourself to learn Ruby, the emerging jewel of FOSS. Jabari Zakiya Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:24:12 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Advanced/articles/070217submittingsecureinformation.html Using SSL encryption to secure information is server and client processor intensive, not to mention that the process can significantly slow the presentation of pages to your visitors. Not surprisingly, some webmasters have instituted an underhanded method to avoid the entire problem by placing sensitive information such as login/password inputs on home pages that are not SSL encrypted. The general programming concept seems to be that since the login/password information is being submitted to a HTTPS encrypted page, the data secure. Well not so fast. Lew Newlin Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070212OSS.html As we started the project of our web site, we knew that the proprietary software costs would be too high for our financial resources. Our only option then was to make use of Open Source Code softwares. Roberto Sedycias Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/070105WebForms.html Making sure that you have CGI or PHP capability on your site is important, but even if you decide against it, you will often be able to find companies that offer "hosted solutions" through their servers, For many people, this is an awesome solution in its Benny Tsabba Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:00:00 GMT http://www.cgidir.com/guides/Beginner/articles/061212GoogleAPI.html With the API, programmers can use most any web programming language, such as PHP, ASP, Perl, .NET, and Java. Google's Web API provides "data hooks" that allow a remote program to access certain portions of Google easily. Jakob Jelling Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:00:00 GMT