The Perl Common Gateway Interface (CGI) module is a module capable of creating HTML markup code on the fly within your Perl script. It is mostly used as a means to catch the parameters of a page. While you could create entire pages with the methods included in the CGI module, it is a lengthy process and isn’t very efficient. A simple print statement with your HTML markup as the printed material is a much more practical use of the CGI module.
In this chapter, we’ll be exploring the Perl modules that ...