• Zodiachus (3/3) Nov 03 2006 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side dy...
• Lars Ivar Igesund (9/12) Nov 03 2006 Well, it requires more tooling infrastructure than what is available tod...
• Mike Parker (6/14) Nov 03 2006 Anywhere you can use C, you can use D.
• Chris Nicholson-Sauls (6/9) Nov 03 2006 You've already been pointed to DSP and suggested CGI, so my response has...
• John Demme (10/13) Nov 03 2006 If you're OK with something more like Java Servlets, check out Mango at
• Unknown W. Brackets (10/13) Nov 03 2006 Just doing a CGI won't be very efficient, but if you use FastCGI you'll
• Zodiachus (7/7) Nov 07 2006 Thanks for the input everyone. So there are a few ways to go about this ...
• Unknown W. Brackets (27/35) Nov 07 2006 Calling C code in D:

Zodiachus <zodiachus gmail.com> writes:

Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side dynamic
content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to use D instead
of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

Lars Ivar Igesund <larsivar igesund.net> writes:

Zodiachus wrote:

 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side
 dynamic content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to
 use D instead of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

Well, it requires more tooling infrastructure than what is available today,
to really make it simple and usable.

See the discussions on the DSP forum over www.dsource.org. The DDL project
started because of those.

-- 
Lars Ivar Igesund
blog at http://larsivi.net
DSource & #D: larsivi

Mike Parker <aldacron71 yahoo.com> writes:

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
 Zodiachus wrote:
 
 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side
 dynamic content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to
 use D instead of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

 
 Well, it requires more tooling infrastructure than what is available today,
 to really make it simple and usable.


Anywhere you can use C, you can use D.

Getting Started with CGI Programming in C: 
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html

Boutell's ANSI C CGI Library (cgic):
http://www.boutell.com/cgic/

Chris Nicholson-Sauls <ibisbasenji gmail.com> writes:

Zodiachus wrote:
 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side dynamic
 content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to use D instead
 of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

You've already been pointed to DSP and suggested CGI, so my response has
already been 
made.  But I would like to add that I have a CGI branch in the Cashew library
that needs 
fleshing out, so if you'd have any suggestions for that, I would be most
appreciative. 
(It has almost nothing at the moment, just environment variables and URL
encoding/decoding.)

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

John Demme <me teqdruid.com> writes:

If you're OK with something more like Java Servlets, check out Mango at
dsource.org.  It's got an http server (a really fast one) and a servlets
engine that's pretty easy to use.  It's certainly a templating system like
PHP, but it runs pretty freaking fast and is pretty simple to use.

~John Demme

Zodiachus wrote:

 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side
 dynamic content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to
 use D instead of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

-- 
~John Demme
me teqdruid.com
http://www.teqdruid.com/

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

Just doing a CGI won't be very efficient, but if you use FastCGI you'll 
get pretty good performance.

I'd suggest looking into FastCGI.  It's actually very easy to implement 
- you just listen on a socket and handle each connection separately. 
You don't have to use threading, but if you did it would probably be 
more efficient.

That said, the best way (imho) is an Apache module, ISAPI extension, 
etc.  This is more work, of course.  This is how PHP/etc. are 
implemented typically.

-[Unknown]


 Do you guys think that D would be a suitable language for server-side dynamic
 content handling? If so, what would one need to do to be able to use D instead
 of PHP/ASP/whatnot?

Zodiachus <zodiachus gmail.com> writes:

Thanks for the input everyone. So there are a few ways to go about this it
seems.
Now I just need to figure out which way would be the best to go.

On that note, I have a few questions:
Are there any good guides/tutorials/examples on how to call D code from C and
vice
versa?
How do you search the D forums here without actually including results from the
entire site?

"Unknown W. Brackets" <unknown simplemachines.org> writes:

Calling C code in D:

/* C code */
void foo()
{
...
}

/* D code */
extern (C)
void foo();

...

foo();

Calling D code in C:

/* C code */
void foo();

...

foo();

/* D code */
extern (C)
void foo()
{
...
}

But if you pass dynamically allocated pointers, arrays, objects, etc. 
around you have to make sure to keep a reference for the GC.

For searching... something like this?

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adigitalmars.com+inurl%3Apnews%2Fread

-[Unknown]


 Thanks for the input everyone. So there are a few ways to go about this it
seems.
 Now I just need to figure out which way would be the best to go.
 
 On that note, I have a few questions:
 Are there any good guides/tutorials/examples on how to call D code from C and
vice
 versa?
 How do you search the D forums here without actually including results from the
 entire site?