Title: CGI Information
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What CGI Is
CGI, standing for Common Gateway Interface, is a computer language that takes information, changes it according to the script,
and outputs it in the new form. CGI itself is not a language, but is written from other languages. Perl and C are the two most
common languages to write CGI scripts.
Forms and CGI
All forms need a CGI script to take the information that was inputted into the fields of the forms and transform it to whatever the
creator would like. For example, a site creator could create a script that takes the users name and outputs it in a letter that is
personalized with the users name.
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