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Peter Morris
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 Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: HTML |
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Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
Ouputting text with HTML syntax is easy enough,
but how do I make a web browser see the generated
text?
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MiniDisc_2k2
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: HTML |
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"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote
| Quote: | Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
Ouputting text with HTML syntax is easy enough,
but how do I make a web browser see the generated
text?
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Sorry about the os-dependent reply, but this question is kind of
os-dependent (OP, please, next time, try to place this in a better
newsgroup). Just because I'm feeling nice:
(Assuming windows)
#include <fstream>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
using namespace std;
/* Output to text file the HTML stuff here */
system("iexplore <filename>");
}
Obviously, replace <filename> with whatever file you sent it to. This should
open up internet explorer to view the newly created file. Note that you need
to output this code to a file with a .htm or .html extention!
--
MiniDisC_2k2
To reply, replacenospam.com with cox dot net.
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Michael Furman
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: HTML |
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"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote
| Quote: | Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
Ouputting text with HTML syntax is easy enough,
but how do I make a web browser see the generated
text?
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Just output it in the file and then start browser and tell it to read this
file.
Michael Furman
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Peter Morris
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: HTML |
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"Michael Furman" <MichaelFurman (AT) Yahoo (DOT) com> wrote
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"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:beka8g$hf9$1 (AT) sparta (DOT) btinternet.com...
Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
Ouputting text with HTML syntax is easy enough,
but how do I make a web browser see the generated
text?
Just output it in the file and then start browser and tell it to read this
file.
Michael Furman
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If that's all I wanted, I could just write the HTML file myself.
In Perl, for instance, I can write a script that outputs HTML.
If I run the script, it outputs the text to the screen. But I
can point Internet Explorer at the script, and it displays
a web page. This is dynamically generated, it varies according
to data read from a database.
I've written an application in perl, but I want to port it to
C++ or similar, using a complied executable instead of a
Perl script.
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Russell Hanneken
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: HTML |
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"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote
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"Michael Furman" <MichaelFurman (AT) Yahoo (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:bekcm5$629us$1 (AT) ID-122417 (DOT) news.uni-berlin.de...
"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:beka8g$hf9$1 (AT) sparta (DOT) btinternet.com...
Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
Ouputting text with HTML syntax is easy enough,
but how do I make a web browser see the generated
text?
Just output it in the file and then start browser and tell it to read
this file.
If that's all I wanted, I could just write the HTML file myself.
In Perl, for instance, I can write a script that outputs HTML.
If I run the script, it outputs the text to the screen. But I
can point Internet Explorer at the script, and it displays
a web page. This is dynamically generated, it varies according
to data read from a database.
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I don't know how you've configured things, but that doesn't work for me
unless I access the Perl script through a web server. Is that what you're
getting at? You want your web server to run a C++ program and serve the
output to a web browser? If so, then it's just an issue of configuring your
web server. But that's off-topic here.
| Quote: | I've written an application in perl, but I want to port it to
C++ or similar, using a complied executable instead of a
Perl script.
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FYI, if you're processing GET/POST requests, you might find this C++ CGI
library helpful:
http://www.cgicc.org/
You'll probably want to use some other non-standard library for accessing
your database.
In any case, it sounds like another newsgroup would be more helpful to you.
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi, maybe.
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Russell Hanneken
[email]rhanneken (AT) pobox (DOT) com[/email]
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Arthur J. O'Dwyer
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| Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject: [OT] Re: HTML |
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On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Peter Morris wrote:
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"Peter Morris" <nospam.ple (AT) se (DOT) com> wrote in message
Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
If that's all I wanted, I could just write the HTML file myself.
In Perl, for instance, I can write a script that outputs HTML.
If I run the script
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via a CGI-BIN server or similar, I presume?
| Quote: | it outputs the text to the screen. But I
can point Internet Explorer at the script, and it displays
a web page. This is dynamically generated, it varies according
to data read from a database.
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Depends on what support your host has for CGI. Geocities, for example,
doesn't have any. Point IE at a Perl script hosted there, and you
get a screenful of line noise. (Perl source, that is.) The same thing
happens if I point IE at a Perl script on my hard disk, although if
you have it configured differently, I've no doubt you could get a "CGI
server" on your own machine. I'd kind of like that. :)
| Quote: | I've written an application in perl, but I want to port it to
C++ or similar, using a complied executable instead of a
Perl script.
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Look up the Perl equivalent of 'system()'. Then compile your C++
program to an executable (for whatever OS is running on your host
machine), and exec that program via a Perl script. Completely
untested and OT stuff follows:
% cat hello.cc
#include <iostream>
int main()
{ std::cout << "Hello world!" << std::endl; return 0; }
% cat hello.cgi
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/htmlnn";
print `./hello`; ## Note the backquotes!
% g++ -o hello hello.cc
% chmod 755 hello.cgi
HTH,
-Arthur
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one2001boy@yahoo.com
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 7:09 am Post subject: Re: HTML |
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Peter Morris wrote:
| Quote: | Is it possible to use C or C++ to create web pages?
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of course, there is a cross platform C++ CGI toolkit
runs in C/C++ interpreter Ch.
http://www.softintegration.com/products/toolkit/cgi/
To access database, you write ODBC code which can
be used for any database in any OS.
ODBC information can be found in Microsoft MSDN, or
http://www.softintegration.com/products/toolkit/odbc/
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