What is cgi?

[91Bravo]

Could someone explain to me what "cgi" stands for and how it is used. Web hosting
companies offer it and I dont know what it is. Thanks in advance for any info!

[Mntsnow]

In the context of the World Wide Web, CGI, Perl, VBScript, and similar script languages are often written to handle forms input or other services for a Web site and are processed on the Web server. For instance you will need CGI support if your wanting to have a "hit counter" and such.

[91Bravo]

Hey everyone thanX for the info. I really appreciate it. ThanX!

[SysOpt]

Although some web hosts provide things like hit counters and the ability to have the contents of an HTML form emailed to you without you having to have CGI capabilities or knowledge of installing CGI scripts.

Most CGI scripts are written in Perl, a progamming language somewhat similar to C but much easier IMO. There are tons of scripts out there that can be fairly easy to install to use in your own site, and modified too. See http://www.cgi-resources.com.

Scott

[qball]

CGI:

For movies, Computer Generated Imagery

For www, Common Gateway Interface. It allows server side processing on web requests. It actually is very powerful and is a big improvement over static HTML.

[Beemers]

CGI=Common Gateway Interface
See the rest above.