Online Use Of C++

[Dead Eye]

Im pretty sure that C++ can be used online through Web Servers, however havent seen this in complete practice. Was wondering if anyone has had any experience of coding for this situation (using C++ of course) or knows of any useful places to find out more information on the topic at hand?

 

[axilant]

Sure.

You can make a c++ program, and run it as binary on a linux system, and using php to execute commands ect...

for example:
Teamspeak linux server has ways you can control what it does with php, or pretty much any server side language, not sure is this what you ment... but this is what i thought you ment...

 

[Dead Eye]

I had a feeling that it was possible, im just not quite sure how.

Though I hadnt heard about PHP calling to a C++ binary program before...

Thanks for the info

 

[axilant]

you use:

system() you can even execute excel documents with system() and add columns and save the excel file

 

[Dead Eye]

Oh right cool, thanks, ill look it up on php.net

Thanks a lot ^^

 

[axilant]

Oh right cool, thanks, ill look it up on php.net

Thanks a lot ^^

the excel thing, you have to have excel on the windows server, and the file local though... forgot to add that (Windows only!)

 

[theparrot]

no need for php, make the C/C++ a cgi, or better yet a fast cgi program and then you have none of the overhead of php.

You can get a library to help, at http://www.eekim.com/software/cgihtml/

 

[JCDev]

You also have the option to use your webserver api. That is what mod_php, mod_perl, mod_whatever do. They are wrappers for languages to be able to access Apache api. With c++ or c you don't need such wrapper because the api is easly accessible.

What you need to do is to study Apache's api and use it from your C/C++ web application. Your application can then be loaded by Apache as other apache modules.

Link to apache: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/developer/API.html

You can also do the same thing with MS IIS.

Hope that helps.