I still work on this cool new C web development API.

Autor/Author: Dipl.-Inform. (FH) Steffen Wendzel (Date/Datum: 080411-15:36, Hits: 1213)

In the old system my own self-written webserver software was needed to execute "C code modules". Now I use FastCGI what runs with Apache, IIS, lighttpd, MyServer and many more. FastCGI is a high performance interface similar to CGI but much faster since it executes applications only once (instead of calling the app for every request).

It will be easy!

The problem is: Programming C applications using FastCGI is difficult (you have to parse the query string to get your parameters and the like). My API currently only provides a minimal set of functions similar to PHP what makes the web development in C MUCH easier. (But more functions will follow!)

For example: In PHP you can receive a variable using

$var = $_GET['var'];
if (isset($var))
   ...

With the C Web API you can do something similar:

char *var = cwa_get_var("var");
if (isset(var))
    ...

Cool, isn't it?

C embedded in HTML

But there is not only the API, there is also a tool what makes it possibly to write a PHP-like HTML-C-Mix. This tool is named cwahtml. Here is an example website based on my C Web API (cwa) I wrote:

To generate a normal C code, one has to run cwahtml first:

cwahtml input.c output.c

And then simply compiling it to a fcgi executable:

gcc -o sample.fcgi output.c -lfcgi

And yes, you need a webserver that is configured to serve FastCGI (e.g. mod_fastcgi for Apache).

Here is the output of the script:

I think I can put the first snapshot version online within the next weeks ...

PS. It would be cool to receive ideas and wishes from you!

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EDIT (Apr-13-2008 00:49)

I just added HTTP URL decoding: