CGI Design

**zacs7** · 04-01-2007

Hello,

Currently im working on a largish CGI script in C, im wondering how I should go around things performance wise.

A large amount of the content is dynamic, should I... Load 'templates' from files/parse them and then add my values? Or run it as a big program outputting it along the way...

like:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");
	printf(	"<html>\n"
		"<head>\n"
		"<title>&#37;s</title>\n", "Dynamic title!");
}

Note the dynamic title... (as an eg), Or should I load a template from a file then parse it (what's best for performance? (I know this depends on how im parsing it)).

Also, including stdio.h just to read/write to stdin and stdout adds a lot of overhead to my program, Is there a way to reduce this overhead?

Thanks in advance!

**kaelis** · 04-01-2007

That would all depend on if you want to have your CGI script as re-usable for other websites, or if you just want it to be done for one website and only that website.

If you want it re-usable, make a file that it will open and read when it begins. This will tell the script things like Title of Site, and other such things. Like a configuration file or something.

If you don't want it that way, then don't and simply place it directly in your code.

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