From: Jeannette Harper <budlink(a)surewest.net>
Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [WIGEN-L] CGI Scripting at Rootsweb
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:33:48 -0700
Paula
CGI stands for "Common Gateway Interface"... In essence it's a programming
language which allows certain 'things' to happen...
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/
This might either explain or, send you running from the room in fear ;-D
PERL is one of the languages I use(d) but there ARE others...
I have a form 'handler' I use when someone submits a query to my county.
The form handler is a cgi script... You can do your coding using Word or
any text editor but you really can not 'test' your script easily unless you
have the right set-up. That's what the REAL programmers do... I just
dabble ;-)
Jeannette
Douglas Co
> From: "Paula Vaughan" <pajolova(a)hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:23:33 -0500
> To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: RE: [WIGEN-L] CGI Scripting at Rootsweb
> Resent-From: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:24:18 -0600
>
> Ok - for a really dumb question - what isCGI Scripting? I hope I am not
the
> only one out here who doesn't know what that is.
>
> Paula
> Waupaca County Coordinator
> WIGenWeb Project
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm
>
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