CGI.PM

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! CGI.pm is a large and widely used Perl module for programming Common Gateway Interface (CGI) web applications, providing a consistent API for receiving user input and producing HTML or XHTML output. This would print a very simple webform, asking for your name and age, and after having been submitted, redisplaying the form with the name and age displayed below it. This sample makes use of CGI.pm's object-oriented abilities; it can also be done by calling functions directly, without the $cgi->. Note: in many examples $q, short for query, is used to store a CGI object. As the above example illustrates, this might be very misleading.