I agree with chromatic's post.

Check out CGI.pm and also
Check out Ovid's CGI Course

Lot's of great info there. I've not read that book either, but I'd use CGI.pm for getting values from web forms, it only takes a couple of lines of code.

To answer your question though, it usually doesn't matter if you call it *.pl or *.cgi. Try both to see if the script works on your web server, if so then use whatever you're comfortanble with.

Good Luck

In reply to ($code or die): Re: I have a lot of problems w/ my scripts, but this may be the biggie. Please read by $code or die
in thread I have a lot of problems w/ my scripts, but this may be the biggie. Please read by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.