Using CGI has become quite common in recent years. We have already discussed about some common uses of this CGI program. To make this present article more apt, let us discuss about some important uses of CGI scripts. Unless we do not discuss about its use, we can not properly understand its advantage and disadvantages. The most interesting use of CGI is to formulate web files or documents, which depend upon the interaction of the user. To make this function easy, there are scripts which take the readers to any page of the web site. In addition to this, the scripts also create pages on the basis of form input. It also creates pages which are based on information from the database. The scripts also have other uses including resolving form data, putting data in the data base, sending data out through mail and responding to the form entry of email. The CGI scripts also have different uses; it is used for the interaction with the readers of web behind the scene. They are used for setting and reading cookies, calculating hit counts and monitoring the traffic of web. From the above discussion it is clear that the CGI script have many important roles to perform in the CGI program.

The CGI scripts are written using different languages. Generally people use Perl to write CGI script, but you should remember that there are other languages which also used for this purpose. The other languages used for this purpose are C and C++. Languages like Tcl, UNIX are also used for the same purpose. Therefore, the script is an essential component of the CGI program to facilitate the interface. It helps the functioning of this interactive program in a great way.