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Hi all
I once learnt to programme cgi with ada (for a uni project) and I now have a use for cgi but would rather use either c or c++ (preferably c++). Im not sure if it is possible to programme cgi with c or c++, i presume it is. Could somebody please post a link to a good beginners tutorial.
Thanks in advance
It is possible, although you need a CGI-compatible web server.
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Which is almost every major server out there. Out curiosity must you use C/C++? For CGI, I would recommend perl/php.
As for a link you really should try using google sometimes...
Something I wrote when I had curiosity with CGI and C/C++...
http://www.digitalkeg.com/downloads/...pp/cpp_cgi.zip
Needs to be compiled on whatever system is supposed to run it. Also, being an executable you may run into issues where the web server you're on won't allow execution. I'd suggest installing Apache or any other web server on your rig and playing with it that way.
Otherwise if its just a matter of wanting to do web programming, I would suggest like others have mentioned and pick up one of the popular scripting languages such as PHP, ASP, cold fusion, etc. PHP would be your best pick as its what I'd classify as a C syntax language.
On that note, I don't really recall how complete that code is to be honest. I know I was able to do quite a few things, though the primary reason for its existance was my curiosity of how to use CGI with C/C++.
that download
i got fatal error
cant open cuz this file doenst exist
#include "CEMC_Counter.h"
the biggest thing to remember with using c or c++ for cgi.
the output of the cgi has to be in a web format.
( html )
you have to send everything needed for a valid webpage from the app.
the headers included.
if you don't, then the site visitor will just get a screen ( browser window ) of plain text.
if you are coding the site to w3c standards, you would need to make sure you send the dtd and validation header, include a link to the validator..Code:echo <<< <HTML><br>/n; echo<<< <title>Title of page / site </title><br>/n;
everything.
Originally Posted by Jeff Henager
At the time of writing this, I didn't much care for standards. It was more of learning. Appreciate the note though. I'm sure anyone that wishes to expand their knowledge on this topic would love more of your input here.
Just remove the CEMC include, its irrelevant. I stripped out what was either uncompleted (ODBC for example) or any additional code which was extra. Figured less is more. Apparently I missed a line or two.
Last edited by Divx; 08-24-2005 at 02:25 PM.
so remove the CEMC and how do you put it on a webpage then? yea that part confuses me lol
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