I want to make form on my website. How to use CGI facility for that purpose?

Question

how to make use of CGI facility in creating and using web-forms. please explain in detail.

also mention a website/s where this info. is given in detail so that a novice can understand it easily.

Answer 1

You specify an action in the form, which is a script on the web server the html form can call, usually with the POST method. The form elements are then variables you can do with what you want.

Historically the script has been written in Perl, although you can use others. PHP can also process forms, for example.

There's a few cgi basics tutorials out there. You also may want to look at the code of any open source web application you can find that processes forms, which is a lot of them.