CGI Scripts

You don't need to be a computer expert to benefit from your CGI service. You can turn your CGI service into a blog, forum or photo gallery by downloading free scripts from the Internet.

For help with setting up CGI scripts on your PlusNet account, see the Webspace Help forum.

Ready-to-use Scripts

There are two scripts set up on the PlusNet servers that can be used without using your own CGI service. They are the Email Form Script and the Webcounter Script.

Email Form Script

This is a CGI script that allows you to put a form on your web page. Information entered into the form and submitted will be sent to you by email. You will need to insert the following HTML into your page - the elements highlighted in bold should be changed to your own personalised settings.Start the form - this is required.

Make it secure

If you wish to use a secure form to collect sensitive information, you can do so using https:// instead of http:// both in the code for the form and to reference the page containing the form; i.e. use

< a href="https://homepages.plus.net/username/form.html" to link to the page and form method="post" action="https://homepages.plus.net/cgi-bin/form" in the form page source. The homepages.plus.net/username version of your web address must be used.

Web Counter Script

To put a hit counter on your page, the HTML you require is:

We also have a selection of other counters available, they are accessed in a similar manner, apart from the address of the counter is slightly different. All of the counters use the same log file, so if you change the style of your counter, then you won't lose all of your hard earned hits.

Note that the final counter is 50% of the actual size.