Scripts for your Site
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Free scripts for your site

If you can't run scripts on your site:

• Free Tools

  Free tools available from Philip Greenspun's greenspun.com:
  • Clickthrough allows you to see what people have been clicking on on paler.com.
  • LUSENET allows you to create free bulletin boards.
  • Telegraph allows people to email you from your web page.

  See also the free tools on the creating websites page.

   

• Microsoft's fastcounter

  A counter to display the number of visitors a page has received. What a lot of terms and conditions! You also need to provide your details to use this one.

If you can run scripts on your site:

Dmoz.org has a list of free script collections (Google version, ordered by popularity) as well as a list of languages where you can find collections of scripts, including some in PHP.

• Where I found the scripts below

  Freshmeat.net - free Linux scripts (Perl too)
  Worldwidemart.com/scripts/ - Matt's script archive
  
  

• Other places to look for scripts

  Scriptsearch.com - a site dedicated to finding scripts in various languages.
  Zdnet.com/devhead/resources/scriptlibrary/perlscript/ the Perl section of ZDnet.
  Google.com search:free+perl+scripts

Allow people to email you using forms on your website

• yform.cgi

  Fyi.net/~abass/domino/misc.htm (section is right at the bottom of the page)
  
  Matthew's script sent an email response from an HTML form to a specified email address. Donald's modification (Bcr.org/~randd/formmods.html) sends a courtesy email to the person who filled out the form. Our modifications let you specify whether or not you wish to send the courtesy reply and whether or not you wish to log all form submissions in a database file located on your sever. We've also added several fields to allow you to customize YForm.
  A sample form is included in the archive below with details about our modifications included in a text file. For a more indepth listing of features, read Mathew's information about FormMail.pl.
  
  

• Matt's script archive (and lots of other useful scripts)

  
  Guestbook (Visitors sign in and get added to web page)
  Formmail (Get the contents of any form mailed to you.)
  wwwboard (Web discussion board and message forum.)
  Counter (counters to display how many users have visited your site for your pages).

Counters

• From Matt's script archive (as above)

  Counters to to display the number of visitors a page has received. Either a text counter or a graphic based counter.

Show adverts on your site, use scripts to monitor user click-throughs to other sites.

• Banner Ad Rotation Program

  Dave.imarc.net/perl.php (Freshmeat description)
  
  ..the scripts also logs all ad-views and click-throughs by the name of the ad, the client who is paying for the ad, and all the normal user info (time, browser, ip, etc). the log format used is apache's standard "combined log format" - making it easy for you to run the logs through your web log analyzing software
  
  

• Adrotate
  

  AdRotate is a program written in Perl that enables banner-ad rotation on a Web site. It can handle up to five seperate rotations. It tracks how many times each ad has been viewed and clicked.
  
  

• Also see phpadsnew

• Adfu.shtml

  Adfu is a collection of perl scripts which allow us to show people banner ads when they come to our sites.

Now you have added scripts to enliven your page