CGI interface

[meerkat]

I'm new to LB and am trying to do web applications. So this is probably something everyone is already doing.
Has anyone done web applications with LB?
Is it possible to use CGI with LB? I have WAMP server running. Can I use that? Does LB have stdio?
Is thate a dll I can use for CGI?

Thanks for the help.

[tsh73]

>> Does LB have stdio?
No

I've seen something posted on this forum - dll? - that said it *adds* stdio.
But I did not tried it / cannot find it any more.

really IMHO
but LB is not designed for that
(well, RB does his own server instead)
so while it coud be possible, better return of investmenf would be pick up more suitable language.
Preferably one with CGI library existing (reinventing wheels is fun for some limit, then it is a chore)
(though CGI probably considered bronze age now).

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EDIT
while I did not found that I mentioned, I got this thread
libertybasiccom.proboards.com/thread/901/suggestion-standardized-professional-looking-apps
there Chris Iverson says something on LB, CGI and Apache.

Oh man. I see you was in the thread.

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I finally found that thread
libertybasiccom.proboards.com/thread/2184/console-lb
Indeed it says "console", not "stdin".

[meerkat]

Hmmmm! I remember that discussion years ago.. Haven't been back here in a while. Looks like not much has changed or added to do client/server.
A language IMHO does not have to be built specifically to do web apps. All it needs is a interface.
Most BASIC languages out there have a client/server method of some kind.
I think I'll look around again for a BASIC language with client/server.
I used to use RB but it hasn't had updates/fixes in years, so I can no longer use it.
I was looking at using another BASIC to do CGI and have it call LB. But then that is kinda crazy..

Thanks for the update..

[Rod]

Brent posted some code a while ago on the LBPE, he also has his own forum Bay6 vivifier. It uses wininet.dll. Have a google it might be the .dll you are after. Very little other code but it might be a start.

CODE BEGINS
   'Retrieving HTTPS Data Demo
   'By Brent D. Thorn, 9/2005

   remoteFile$ = "https://login.yahoo.com/"

   CHUNK.SIZE = 512 ' enough bytes to hold a single line of HTML

   Open "wininet" For DLL As #inet

   'It would be a good idea to test for an Internet
   'connection before proceding. This demo assumes
   'you have one already.

   ' Register a new user agent. Use proxy settings
   ' set up in Internet Options Control Panel.
   CallDLL #inet, "InternetOpenA", _
       "My User Agent" As Ptr, _
       0 As Long, _ 'INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG
       _NULL As Long, _
       _NULL As Long, _
       0 As ULong, _
       hInet As ULong
   If hInet = 0 Then [ErrExit]

   ' Open a request to a remote file
   CallDLL #inet, "InternetOpenUrlA", _
       hInet As ULong, _
       remoteFile$ As Ptr, _
       _NULL As Long, _
       0 As Long, _
       2147483648 As ULong, _ 'INTERNET_FLAG_RELOAD
       _NULL As Long, _
       hFile As ULong
   If hFile = 0 Then [ErrExit]

   ' Start reading in the file by chunks.
   Buffer$ = ""
   chunk$ = Space$(CHUNK.SIZE)+Chr$(0)
   Struct pdw, NumberOfBytesRead As ULong
   Do
       CallDLL #inet, "InternetReadFile", _
           hFile As ULong, _
           chunk$ As Ptr, _
           CHUNK.SIZE As ULong, _
           pdw As Struct, _
           ret As Long

       If pdw.NumberOfBytesRead.struct = 0 Then Exit Do

       Buffer$ = Buffer$ + Left$(chunk$, pdw.NumberOfBytesRead.struct)
   Loop Until 0

   Print Buffer$

[ErrExit]
   ' If you get an error, find GetLastError on MSDN. There
   ' you will find a link to a list of error codes.
   CallDLL #kernel32, "GetLastError", ret As ULong
   If ret Then Print "Error ";ret

   ' Free the handles we created and exit.

   If hFile Then _
   CallDLL #inet, "InternetCloseHandle", _
       hFile As ULong, ret As Long

   If hInet Then _
   CallDLL #inet, "InternetCloseHandle", _
       hInet As ULong, ret As Long

   ' Strangely, the next line causes LB to hang for around 45
   ' seconds on my computer, a 2.2 GHz running XP on dial-up.
   Close #inet

   End
'CODE ENDS

[meerkat]

Thanks Rod.. I'll look into it.

Using the LB generator submited on this forum, I generated some LB code to list table pages that also did add, change, and delete.
I converted the code to FreeBasic and to use mySQL instead of SQLite and it worked using Apache and CGI.
I like their web interface. Maybe there is something there that can be brought over to LB.
I'll keep looking and comparing.