Mark's Web Work: CGI

Experience

    Mark Qian has been programming CGI with PERL in UNIX since 8/95

    and with ISAPI in NT since 5/96. Projects include and 

    a financial application in Netscape and the work in this site

    (see details below).











To learn more about Mark's CGI work, you may want to take a look at 

  -  CooCoo, a couple of Java applet and CGI script.
     This is a cool chat system wining TOP %5 in JARS.




Some CGI Approaches in this site



Opening page with different GUI compononets such as

  wallpaper, sound, applets, advertisement text randomly:



  In this site, you will see a different style of the

  same page when you reload the page.  A CGI script named

  page takes any HTML document as its input and outputs

  the HTML document with random wallpaper, sound, applets,

  and text.  

	   

	   Examples: 

	    

	      - Main page

	      - Web Zoo

	      - Saver page





Hits Report



  The script, "page", will also maintain an item in a log file.

  This item shows number of hits to the page that is opened

  by script "page".





Automatic Link addition



  A CGI script, link_ex.cgi, is designed to allow visitors to add 

  their links with banners and view what they have added right after

  their addition. This script is able to take care multi-purpose

  addition. 



	   Examples:



	      - Link Exchange Flea Market

	      - Mark's Applets In Real World





Registration Systems

  There are several registration forms were implemented in COOLSHARE:



	      - A CGI script, get_sv.cgi, is used to record information such 

	        as how visitors find COOLSHARE.



	        Examples: Screen Saver Download Page

		    



	      - A CGI script, bug, is used to detect where a download problem

	        occurs(A visitor only need to click at the link and a send 

	        button in next screen to send the report).



	        Examples: Screen Saver Download Page.

	        (To see this CGI generated form, click at "Send us a message 

	        if you encounter any difficulty with downloading...")

    

CGI and PERL

• A registration CGI script in PERL

          Description:

          This CGI script in PERL displays a blank registration form at the first time.

          It will verify the required fields when you(registrant) click at "I agree..." button and

          pop up a correction list if any of required field is incompleted.  If every

          field is OK, it will display a confirmation and send you a confirmation EMail.

          It will also update a registration record file in the server.