Re: Programming MySQL in C

On 16/05/17 07:31, bit-naughty_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> I'd like some info on this - my book has a little, so I was just
> wondering - does anyone do this these days?

I do

> Is like, the mysql C
> library included with a modern, say, CentOS?

Probably. You have to install the libraries tho.

> And, most importantly -
> what's a quick n easy way to print HTML in C? For a page that will
> have normal HTML interspersed with DB output, do I have to put a
> slash before every quote mark if I haave a PRINT statement with HTML
> in it? I suppose I could do a search-and-repace in my text editor to
> replace every " with a \", but - IS THERE A BETTER WAY? One other way
> I guess would be to put every separate little bit of HTML in a
> separate file, and pull it up and print it in the C proggy, but -
> that would be Bloody Slow!

not really.
Id build the static HTML as a series of constant string variables, and just printf em.

most folks use php for the HTML side of things tho for this reason.

PHP for web pages: C for backend stuff

>
> Anything else?
>
>
> Thanks.
>

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