Serverside Development: Ditching PHP for C++. Advice Needed!

[evo4ever]

Hello all, my first post here.

Ive been learning C++ for 6 months now and im comfortable that I know the language through and through now, including the STL. I what to go back to serverside development but I dont want to use PHP anymore, id rather use C++ to continue my exposure to solidify my C++ knowledge.

Is there any possible way to implement C++ code into webpages? Im aware that the STL has no such cl***es for serverside development. Are there any other third party APIs which give you access the server/client variables? EG: GET, POST, SERVER, SESSION, COOKIE?

The only way that ive got C++ apps runnning on apache is through the cgi-bin. But the issue ive got is that ive no access to the above vars! Help appreciated.

[Jordan]

Of course you can use the CGI-BIN and C++ to create serverside scripts in C++.

Here is a tutorial: C++ CGI cl*** (1): An introduction

This site: Getting Started with CGI Programming in C shows how to get the form variables. Take a look at "How to process a simple form".



If you want to have the C++ CGI in your html directory instead of the CGI-BIN change your httpd.conf file to point the CGI-BIN to your html directory instead of the CGI-BIN. It will look something like this:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/local/apache/share/cgi-bin