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Thread: cgi - developing a messageboard

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    Hi,
    I want to develop my own bulletin board system for my website to save costs (as opposed to buying a bulletin board system). I have quite a bit of experience with programming, including Visual Basic, VbScript, C, C++, and HTML.

    What I want to know is where I should get started. I haven't done any real (CGI) web programming. How is the programming related to the actual integration with the HTML pages?

    Please point me in the right direction.

    Thanks.

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    well, it seems that you want to do it in Perl, since that is the most common CGI language. I would probably do it in PHP or ASP...but...here is a link to help you get started with cgi: http://www.cgi101.com/class

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    Thumbs up wow!

    Wow! That's a great website. I'm already writing my own CGI scripts! ?correct terminology?

    Thanks a lot!

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    Thats good that you found that research useful! I would recomend though that you take a look at some PHP or ASP programming. Many developers are switching from perl to ASP and PHP for that type of thing.

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