All my previous CGI scripts have been written in C, and I'm told that it can be done in any language that writes to STDIO. C++ writes to SDTIO, but I've never seen it used in scripts. I think OOP could be very useful in my next script, and Java applets are out of the question. What's the situation with browser's handling C++, anybody know?
Why wouldn't it work? Its compiled just as C is. A processor doesn't differentiate between a program written in C, and one in C++.Originally posted by Sean
All my previous CGI scripts have been written in C, and I'm told that it can be done in any language that writes to STDIO. C++ writes to SDTIO, but I've never seen it used in scripts. I think OOP could be very useful in my next script, and Java applets are out of the question. What's the situation with browser's handling C++, anybody know?
May I ask: How can you write CGI scripts in C?
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>How can you write CGI scripts in C?
It's surprisingly simple, here is a CGI program that takes a message and creates a simple web page:
Or the C++ equivalent:Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> #define OPEN "<HTML><BODY>" #define CLOSE "</BODY></HTML>" void parseMsg ( char *buf, char *s ) { strcpy ( buf, s ); /* Insert a more suitable parse routine here */ } int main ( int argc, char **argv ) { char msg[BUFSIZ]; if ( argc > 1 ) { parseMsg ( msg, argv[1] ); printf ( "Content-type: text/html\n\n" ); printf ( "%s\n%s\n%s\n", OPEN, msg, CLOSE ); } return 0; }
-PreludeCode:#include <iostream> #include <string> const char OPEN[] = "<HTML><BODY>"; const char CLOSE[] = "</BODY></HTML>"; void parseMsg ( std::string& buf, char *s ) { buf = s; /* Insert a more suitable parse routine here */ } int main ( int argc, char **argv ) { std::string msg; if ( argc > 1 ) { parseMsg ( msg, argv[1] ); std::cout<<"Content-type: text/html\n\n"; std::cout<< OPEN <<'\n'<< msg <<'\n'<< CLOSE <<std::endl; } }
My best code is written with the delete key.
