D in accounting program

Wed Nov 24 15:22:29 PST 2010

hello adam,

are you just using cgi or are you using fastcgi?

Adam D. Ruppe Wrote:

> sybrandy wrote:
> > Is there any chance we could see the code you wrote?
> 
> The majority of this app is a closed source proprietary thing
> that I don't own the copyright on, but I was allowed to keep
> most the helper libraries.
> 
> You can find most of it in here:
> http://arsdnet.net/dcode/
> 
> cgi.d is for the cgi client applications and httpdconnection.d
> shows a server, although that code is ancient and probably
> doesn't even compile. (It requires the netman.d code - it
> specializes the netman Connection class. Somewhere I have an
> aim.d that works the same way too.)
> 
> cgi.d has two constructors: the default one follows the CGI
> standard. The other one takes some raw data that should be
> a HTTP request. It pulls everything out of it. (The benefit
> of this is using my httpd program, I can construct a CGI object
> and write client code in the same way as a traditional app.
> I figure FastCGI should be able to be implemented in an identical
> fashion but I haven't gotten around to it yet; performance
> has been excellent so far, better than the old PHP was.)
> 
> import arsd.cgi;
> import std.stdio; // required by cgi but not publically imported there
> import std.string; // ditto
> 
> void main() {
>      auto cgi = new Cgi;
>      cgi.write("<html><body>Hello, world!</body></html>");
>      cgi.close();
> }
> 
> 
> mysql.d wraps up just enough of the C mysql API for me to use
> it here in a fairly sane fashion. It does queries with self-
> implemented replacement and auto escaping. It returns a ranged
> array of strings by default, or can do an assocative array.
> 
> (That is, it returns a MySql.Result range, where result.front
>  is a string[] or a string[string]).
> 
> The client code is responsible for converting it to other
> types. Pretty trivial thanks to std.conv so I like it this
> way.
> 
> foreach(line; mysql.query("SELECT id, name FROM users")) {
>      int id = to!int(line[0]);
>      string name = line[1];
> }
> 
> Alternatively:
> 
> 
> foreach(line; mysql.query("SELECT id, name FROM users").byAssoc) {
>      int id = to!int(line["id"]);
>      string name = line["name"];
> }
> 
> 
> dom.d is the DOM implementation of course - nothing fancy there,
> implementation wise.
> 
> 
> 
> web.d is a new thing I've been working on. The plan for it is
> to do a stricter model/view separation and to automate a lot
> of drudge work. (Regular cgi.d provides a much simpler interface,
> the resulting code looks more like plain PHP.) You just
> list functions and a fancy template mixin makes them available
> to be called on the web interface. It works but is still too
> incomplete/buggy to use on serious applications. I'm getting
> there though.