cpp code compile in php

[jeffersonalomia]

I want to create a c++ compiler on my website using php. How do I do that? Pls help. thank you

[diafol]

Erm. You sure you really want to do that? Not saying it can't be done, but not sure if PHP is the right tool for the job. Giving me a nosebleed just thinking about it. Most compilers I know of use C/C++. That's for a good reason. An oft-cited issue against PHP is using strings for binary arithmetic. Why do you need to do this - or more correctly, why does it need to be in PHP?

[jkon]

jeffersonalomia ,
I hope you know that PHP can execute an external program. That way you can save the original C++ code in a file , and run the C++ compiler with arguments the file.
@see http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

But ... as Diafol wrote , why in earth , do you want to do such thing?

[jeffersonalomia]

thanks for your response jkon and diafol. i wanted to do this because of my thesis, which is about E-Learning on c++. And I want to make the users have the ability to code on the website that i have developing about E-Learning c++.

[jeffersonalomia]

May I have your suggestions as an alternative features that i can include on my E-Learning. I will appreciate all your response. Thanks

[diafol]

May I have your suggestions as an alternative features that i can include on my E-Learning. I will appreciate all your response. Thanks

I have no idea what this means. Are you struggling for ideas for your thesis? As jkon says, you can use PHP to run executables - a compiler even? So it would, AFAIK do what you want. Are you looking to create "an online C++ compiler"?

[diafol]

Are you looking for something like this: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/codingground.htm

Or like this: http://cpp.sh/

But this has an example like I assume jkon was discussing: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3460111/trying-compile-a-c-code-with-php

[jeffersonalomia]

is there any online c++ compiler that can be embed on my website?

[jeffersonalomia]

My thesis is about E-Learning System and somehow I want to use that compiler as a feature on my ELS to make the user apply what they`ve learn on my E Learning System

[jeffersonalomia]

Im confuse with this note from http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

If a program is started with this function, in order for it to continue running in the background, the output of the program must be redirected to a file or another output stream. Failing to do so will cause PHP to hang until the execution of the program ends.

Do I need to create a c++ file and write the inputted code inside that cpp file?

[diafol]

This is the particular answer I was referring to:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3460148/4629068

You can use gcc to compile: https://gcc.gnu.org/

[jeffersonalomia]

I was confuse on the codes in http://stackoverflow.com/a/3460148/4629068

please explain how to use exec() and how can I access the compiler. Thanks :)

[diafol]

Having you read the php manual on exec() as jkon suggested? I'm not sure what more I could add to that.

You access the compiler (which would be an .exe file) as per the examples and in the link which I included.