Matt's script archive deserve a page all it's own. Matt has been offering scripts to the web for quite a while now. After many different bumps and growing pains, his site has become a nice resource for doing web programming.
What makes his place so great? Well for one he has a whole range of useful scripts for your use. What? Things like a counter, form mail, and random image displayer to name a few. He doesn't stop there though and offers a wide range of support structures for using his scripts and cgi in general. For example, he has a complete FAQ for all of the scripts. Each script also contains a readme with information on the variables needed for the script and also where to find different programs needed on the server. Plus, he also has a mailing list set-up for cgi programmers, to send problems, ask questions etc. To top it off, he also has a "support team" who can help you if you are still in the dark.
Matt's scripts are detailed enough that you shouldn't have any problems installing them. We will try to include our own examples, but examples are available from his pages. Please visit the archive to get the scripts also, you can get them individually or all in one file.
Some information that will help you install Matt's Scripts.
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We have perl installed, both version 4 and 5.
You can name your scripts with .cgi to make them executable (just make sure to turn on the executible permissions.)
your home directory - /home/yourname/www/where_you_put_the_file
$mailprog = "/usr/lib/sendmail";
$datecom = "/bin/date" Location of the 'date' command on the server
SSI is turned on and referenced by .shtml or index.shtml for automatic execution