Hi guys,
My first post here, I already love this place , it's huge and hopefully I can get some help to do this project of mine.
Here's what I need to do.

I need to take my php script that I coded, and translate it into c from php.
What tools will I need to do this? I wrote and tested the script with just notepad, so I'm sure I'm going to need tools to build and test this script in c.
My platform I am coding in is windows xp professional 2. The platform(s) I would like it to run on are linux (1st importance) and windows xp would be nice if it was easy, most important is linux however (centos 4 with cpanel/whm but you probably didn't need that much info).
Here is the basic functions my script has...

Here is the script, i modified it a little bit here and there, changed some words and names.
I believe I fixed the error about it timing out, or at least I pray I did. It's been running for two hours and still seems to be loading which is good, I just had to have it display something every 10 seconds or the browser would eventually time out.
Any ideas on how to easily convert this to C or Perl (perferably c)?
I can give a few snippets (edited variable names of course)


class MYFUNCTION
{
var $PROXY_LIST=false;
var $CURRENT_PROXY=false;
var $useProxies=false;
var $proxyPath = 'proxies.txt';

var $max_out = 100000;
var $time_delay = 1;
var $extra_bar=0;//0= no limit

var $named_list=null;
var $stopat=null;

var $fileName ="whatisthefilename.txt";
var $fileMode ="w";

var $numRequests=0;

function GoForIt()
{
set_time_limit(0);//this may take awhile.
$totalsize=9;
$i=0;
$d=0;
while($i < $totalsize && $d <= $this->depth)
{
if($this->useProxies)
$this->GetNextProxy();
$this->ANOTHERFUNCTIONHERE($this->named_list[$i]);
$totalsize = count($this->named_list);
if($max_out >= $this->extra_bar)
break;
if($this->depth>0)
$d++;
$i++;

sleep($this->time_delay);
}
$this->SaveToFile();
}

/********************************************************************
* Get the next anonymous proxy from the proxies.txt file
* When the last proxy is reached it goes back to the first
* proxies should be just the proxy ip and port and a new line
*********************************************************************/
function GetNextProxy()
{
// if the current_proxy is false, then load the proxy file
if(!$this->CURRENT_PROXY)
{
$handle = fopen($this->proxyPath, "rb");
if($handle == false)
{
echo "Please upload a proxy list. or untick the proxy list, moron!";
exit;
}
elseif ($handle == true)
{
$this->PROXY_LIST = fread($handle, filesize('proxies/proxies.txt'));
fclose($handle);
$this->PROXY_LIST = explode("\n", $this->PROXY_LIST);
$this->CURRENT_PROXY = current($this->PROXY_LIST);
}
}
else
{
//get the next proxy from the array
$this->CURRENT_PROXY = next($this->PROXY_LIST);
//if used all proxies then get the first proxy
if(!$this->CURRENT_PROXY)
$this->CURRENT_PROXY = reset($this->PROXY_LIST);
}
}
function BLAHBLAHBLAH($result)
{
if(is_array($result))
foreach($result as $value)
{
$value = strip_tags($value);
$value = trim($value);
if (!in_array($value,$this->named_list))
{
if($this->stopat!=null && $this->stopat($value))
$this->named_list[] = $value;
else
$this->named_list[] = $value;
}
}
}
7

and you execute the script by doing this:

set_time_limit(0);
ignore_user_abort(1);
require_once("./other.file.class.php");

/******************************/
/* CONFIG-BEGIN */
/******************************/
$list = file("list.txt");
$_GET["useVarONE"] = 1;

$sz = sizeof($list);
// START LOOP
for($l=0;$l<=$sz;$l++)
{
echo $list[$l];
$NameOfClass = new Class();
$CFG->Path = dirname($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
$CFG->savefile = $CFG->Path."/dir/test_file_output.txt";
$NameOfClass->fileName = $CFG->savefile;
if(isset($_GET['useExample1']))
$NameOfClass->useExample1 =true;
if(isset($_GET['useProxies']))
{
$NameOfClass->useProxies =true;
$NameOfClass->proxyPath = $CFG->Path."/proxies/proxies.txt";
}
if(isset($_GET['badwords']))
if($_GET['badwords'] != "")
$NameOfClass->Badwords = explode("\n",$_GET['badwords']);

//$_GET["words"] = file_get_contents("list.txt");
$_GET["words"] = $list[$l];
if(!isset($_GET['words'])){ echo "Word file is not valid"; }
else{
//$NameOfClass->example_list = explode("\n", $_GET['words']);
$NameOfClass->example_list = $list[$l];
$NameOfClass->example_list = explode("\n", $_GET['words']);
$NameOfClass->example_list[0] = trim($NameOfClass->example_list[0]);
$NameOfClass->fileName = "kws/".$NameOfClass->example_list[0].".txt";
// $NameOfClass->fileName = str_replace(" ","",$NameOfClass->fileName);
$NameOfClass->GetClassExample();

}

}

Ok that's just the basics of it,the entire php script is like 4 times longer so I really cut this out just so it's like one example of each, so if I could find out how to do it for one of each example I gave, I'm sure I can code the entire rest of the script myself.
The REASON for recoding this into C instead of leaving it in PHP , is that this script is supposed to be running 24/7, non stop, and in php, even with the set_time_limit to unlimted time to run, APACHE crashes after running it for like an hour or two, because it's CONSTANTLY processing based on a VERY HUGE list.txt, and also from what it DOES with that list.txt. You could call it a content processor. If this was recoded into C, I believe it would be more stable and wouldn't crash as much, and also I could run it in the background so it wouldn't be in the way.
Who can assist me in what I am doing? I am quite knowledgeable coding in php and I know just a BIT of c++ from several years ago, I haven't touched it in a while, but hopefully I can redo this php script into c easily.
Thanks in advance!!!

I am not too sure about re-coding it into C, but you could try lighthttpd or running PHP from the command line, as that would use a lot less resources compared to apache.
I hope it works out for your script though.

well you cant code that in C you would have to use C++ for the oo stuff.. Aside from nitpicking about the C/C++ distinction - I would use the C++ map class. It gives much of the functionality that PHP associative arrays have:

http://cppreference.com/cppmap/index.html

arrays are much harder to work with in C++ than in PHP. You might also look at the string and fstream classes for your .txt IO