I have a C++ program.
I would like it to send data to a web server.
A script on said server would interpret this data and make some changes to
an SQL database on the server.
Googling I can find examples where a perl script daemon is used to
update a database from external data and then php is used to extract the
data to create webpages. But the only examples I can find of php being
used for data input as opposed to retrieval is via web-page based forms.
I tried looking in the php manual for information, but I wasn't really
quite sure what I was looking for - I'm looking for information on which
language I should be learning, not for information on how to do something
in a language I already know.
I know that I could learn perl to do what I want, but learning
perl seems rather like overkill given my relatively simple ambitions.
Any advice?
Thanks,
James