Programming & debugging series: CGI executable.

In this tutorial we'll program a CGI executable using the C language and we'll also configure a Windows environment so to test it.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Programming
• HTML
• CGI
• C
• Language
• IIS

[youhakim]

Absolutely yes! yes you can use C++ language to program GCI applications. In general, everything we can do with the C language can be done with the C++ language.

[dre361224]

Alright kool :) Do you think CGI scripts process faster than PHP scripts? If so, I'll rewrite me websites using C++ and GGI.

[youhakim]

The direct answer is: CGI scripts and apps can be faster if the programmer makes them faster! .. but in the other hand PHP is very powerful and it executes very fast.(In fact PHP is what I use to program web apps and I like it very much! yeah I do!)

If you are a C++ master and you believe that you can take care of buffer overflows, memory leaks and those kind of stuff, and you also believe that you can do a better job by using C++ then I say: go for it and make the C++ community proud of you :)

[Colstonewall]

Nice tutorial Hakim. . .Ever thought about doing a CGI tutorial in Python instead of C??? I bet it would be very popular because they're aren't any on youtube.

[GhostXoP]

so? do i care? i dont use visual C++ anymore. And yes, for a game developer, i think you may need to BE a programmer. Just a word from my team.

[francesco149]

@GhostXoP At least he is actually programming instead of clicking and dragging on visual studio and occasionally writing snippets of code.

[GhostXoP]

you did all that just to get that, ill stick to Visual C++ on program not note pad programming.

[MyOverflow]

mofohofo: You could use any language that can access memory to hack games locally (i.e. client side). To do so server side would be to trick the server by editing the information being sent. However, that's nearly impossible if you're trying to do it for a commercial game. You can hack client side variables that will be sent to the server, but if the game is maintained properly (or has been secured properly), it'd be noticed and you could be banned.

[mofohofo]

can you use c++ to hack games

[ChaperonNoir]

Me too !

I once tried to do one in assembly but failed miserably. I guess it's much more work in assembly even if you call the MSVCRT dll.

Once again, i'm impressed on how you do everything in notepad. I'd usually use an IDE for this, but i guess that programming in notepad is good practice to hardcode some programming concepts in your brain. I'll try to teach myself like this.

Thanks again hakim.