Posted by Jussist on 12/24/06 09:17

Depending on situation with the webserver, and complexity of your
console-application, but perhaps you could change a bit the
console-application so, that it would provide an interface usable to
php.

See www.php.net/manual/ref.exec.php

-jussi

Michael R. Copeland wrote:
> I have an application I've developed in C/C++, written as a console
> application. I need to port it to our Web page in such a manner that it
> operates from a simple menu and searches a large text file database.
> Currently, there are several text files being used together to identify
> the existence of relevant information, as well as allow the program to
> read "directly" (seek/read) the data records. (It's a sort of "indexed
> sequential" design.)
> I've started working with 2 PHP books, and it _looks_ as though PHP
> has the capability to do text file I/o in ways similar to my current
> program. The data files are quite large (10MB), which is why byte
> indexing is needed...as opposed to vast and slow sequential searching.
> Is PHP suitable for something like this? If so, are there any sites
> or NewsGroups I'd benefit from in this endeavor? TIA

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