Perl is a well-known scripting language that is used to build different web-oriented apps, which includes CGI scripts. Among the options that distinguish it from various other languages is the employment of modules - batches of Perl program code which perform predefined tasks and they're commonly accepted. In simple terms, rather than generating tailor-made code to make something or pasting tens and hundreds of lines of code in the script, you'll be able to "call" some module that is already available for this specific process and use just a couple of lines of code. Therefore, your script shall be executed a lot faster because it'll be much smaller. Using modules will, in addition make the script simpler to modify because you will have to search through a smaller amount of code. In case you want to use Perl on your website, you have to ensure that the necessary modules are present on your server.

Over 3400 Perl Modules in Website Hosting

All our Linux website hosting packages feature more than 3400 Perl modules which you're able to employ as part of your CGI scripts or web-based applications. They include both widespread and less popular ones, in order to supply you with different options with regard to what capabilities you will be able to add to your sites. A couple of examples are Apache::SOAP, CGI::Session, GD, Image::Magick, URI, LWP and many others. The full list accessible in the Server Information area of our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel, that comes with all of the shared accounts. In the same location, you'll see the Perl version that we have as well as the path to the modules that you will have to use inside your scripts in order to call a given module from the library.