Converting from ANSI-C to PHP

[Anon]

 Hello!

I have made a program that is suppposed to run on a server, but it is in ANSI-C. But there is no hosts that agrees to run an external executable on their server, so now I want to port the program to PHP.
Is there any utility or some ways to make the converting easier?

Thank you in advance,
Pavel.

[Anon]

Just the human brain.

Pavel, if you're familiar with C you should be able to pick up PHP by reading the manual twice. It'll seem very familiar to you.

The trick is to not work too hard -- PHP makes a lot of things easy. For example, you don't have to urldecode data coming in from form submissions (it's done for you automatically and placed in variables). PHP also doesn't get into pointer arithmetic or byte-level operations. It does not have structures, but objects are similar enough that you can do what needs to be done.

[Anon]

The thing is that the program is already done. And what it does is proccesses a binary file and returns another binary file. It doesn't need to do anything with forms or other HTML proccessing.
And the way the C program works now is with buffers and some simple pointer(array) arithmetics for the binary file processing. So in this case I don't need the good things in PHP... Because of that I'm not sure yet what to use, maybe Perl...
Any comments will be wellcomed.

Thanks, Pavel.

[Anon]

Pavel Stessin wrote:

The thing is that the program is already done. And what it does is proccesses a binary file and returns another binary file. It doesn't need to do anything with forms or other HTML proccessing.
And the way the C program works now is with buffers and some simple pointer(array) arithmetics for the binary file processing. So in this case I don't need the good things in PHP... Because of that I'm not sure yet what to use, maybe Perl...
Any comments will be wellcomed.

Thanks, Pavel.

I don't think there would be a problem with doing that in PHP. PHP isn't just HTML/FORM processing, most of the functions are actual C functions, such as: fopen() fread() fclose(), etc. I'm writing a web game, and I write my simulations in C, because it's easier for me to test. Then with hardly any hassle, I can port it in PHP. I would highly reccomend not using perl, as PHP can do anything perl can do faster and with less code. Read the manual, like the previous poster said -- you just need to read it a few times and you will pick it up if your familiar with C.

Just my 2 cents.

[Anon]

Ok, Thanks guys.
That is probably what I will do then.
Thanks again.