Thread: Including CSS in a web C program

I'm sure you can, but the question is why?

You can, because if you dig deep enough through the layers of whatever you're using, you're going to find C at the bottom of the hole.

But if you're wanting to do all that yourself, you're looking at writing potentially 1000's of lines of code.
Code which will inevitably have multiple security holes that PHP/CSS/Javascript/whatever have gone though the pain of finding and fixing.

So, seriously, why?

> will it run faster?
It has that potential.
But unless your server is serving 1000's of requests a second, you're not going to be noticing an awful lot of change in your overall system load.

> will it be more secure?
No.
Sorry, but anyone here asking questions about how to do this just won't have the necessary skills to write secure internet facing code in C.

If it's a toy for your own amusement, then fine.
If this is an actual commercial endeavour (you mentioned paypal), you'd better have your lawyer on speed-dial.

> can I do????
I'm sure you're going to try.

> A couple of problems: background not. booths all piled up at 9 oclock.
So you have bugs in your code - so what?

Since you've neither shown us the original PHP, nor your C code which claims to replicate it's functionality, it's hard to say how you messed it up.

Does your C code use the same mysql db that your PHP used?

I uh, don't see the problem. Your PHP script, and therefore your C program written for CGI, would have just processed serverside logic to result in clientside code that can include CSS. It's the responsibility of the HTTP agent to parse and render the CSS, not your serverside code, not the web server. So what's the problem? This has nothing to do with C and CGI. Fix your CSS and it'll work with both your PHP script and your C CGI program.

> server is serving 1000's...
Well I'm on a shared server, so, ya

> secure
My thought process - that's a side issue - I have had my php scripts hacked - they added a base64 line as line one - (aside - I run a 'whats changed on all of my pages every day - sum filex today doesn't match sum filex yesterday)

> toy?
Eh, asking the question, learning. Why do ID 10 Ts climb Mt Everest?

> bugs in code
Had this discussion long ago - what's the largest program you ever wrote that ran the first time error free - we agreed ... eh, 10 lines...

> booths piled up
not any more -

> orig php & C
well it's 200 line +/- in both - I'd list it here but it would just start a flame war - because I've found there are 7 different ways to code the same output and every 3d person takes offense on how the other person codes ...

> same mysql db
yup. both are as much 1:1 as possible. Given PHP is not C and C is not PHP.

Basic flow:

Code:

mysql_real_connect ()
select b.*, c.* from booth, cust where b.id = c.id
while (fetch)
{
display_booth (args...)
}
display_special_items ()
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So in the image above is the booth was green the booth# would be clickable to a page 
asking for contents of your booth then taking you to PP. PP returns to a purchasereturn 
page which updates the DB

void display_booths()
{
if (sold) class=answerboxpink else answerboxgreen (include href-> purchase.php?boothnumber&price
"<a href='' onmouseover=Tip)
table border=1
tr/tdBooth: bid
tr/tdPrice: price
tr/td contents
/table
onmouseout=UnTip
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void spec(ial)box (x, y, h, w, text, rotate)
div class=answerbox ...
table 
text
/table

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If you'd like the php/c - PM me