Is it possible to create a C++ application that can be run trough the browser? Is there any way to link C++ application with a database (that can be used by both Mac, Linux and Windows).
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Is it possible to create a C++ application that can be run trough the browser? Is there any way to link C++ application with a database (that can be used by both Mac, Linux and Windows).
It’s perfectly possible to do it, back in the day (when there was no PHP around), many web applications were written in C++. There is a standard called CGI that facilitates communication between your application and your web server. This tutorial shows hot to set it up for an Apache web server, using Perl as the target language. You should be able to write a C++ program that prints out the same text and test it.
Databases can be accessed using C++ using a variety of libraries, depending on your needs and database system.
While all of this is totally possible, I’d be interested why you would do such a thing in the days of sophisticated frameworks and languages that are far more suited to web applications than C++. I’d certainly not recommend it.