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Can anyone tell me how to learn to make chatting program in c++. i know the basics of c++. Also it will be really helpful if anyone can refer me any good book.thanking in advance.
hi!
firstly, you'll have to find some information about sockets (for example -> O'REILLY Network socket programing). now i'll give VERY basic example of two simple programs that communicate with each other:
tcp-server.cc
Code:
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <iostream>
#define MAX_MSG 100
#define LINE_ARRAY_SIZE (MAX_MSG+1)
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int listenSocket, connectSocket, i;
unsigned short int listenPort;
socklen_t clientAddressLength;
struct sockaddr_in clientAddress, serverAddress;
char line[LINE_ARRAY_SIZE];
cout << "Enter port number to listen on (between 1500 and 65000): ";
cin >> listenPort;
// Create socket for listening for client connection requests.
listenSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (listenSocket < 0) {
cerr << "cannot create listen socket";
exit(1);
}
// Bind listen socket to listen port. First set various fields in
// the serverAddress structure, then call bind().
// htonl() and htons() convert long integers and short integers
// (respectively) from host byte order (on x86 this is Least
// Significant Byte first) to network byte order (Most Significant
// Byte first).
serverAddress.sin_family = AF_INET;
serverAddress.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
serverAddress.sin_port = htons(listenPort);
if (bind(listenSocket,
(struct sockaddr *) &serverAddress,
sizeof(serverAddress)) < 0) {
cerr << "cannot bind socket";
exit(1);
}
// Wait for connections from clients.
// This is a non-blocking call; i.e., it registers this program with
// the system as expecting connections on this socket, and then
// this thread of execution continues on.
listen(listenSocket, 5);
while (1) {
cout << "Waiting for TCP connection on port " << listenPort << " ...\n";
// Accept a connection with a client that is requesting one. The
// accept() call is a blocking call; i.e., this thread of
// execution stops until a connection comes in.
// connectSocket is a new socket that the system provides,
// separate from listenSocket. We *could* accept more
// connections on listenSocket, before connectSocket is closed,
// but this program doesn't do that.
clientAddressLength = sizeof(clientAddress);
connectSocket = accept(listenSocket,
(struct sockaddr *) &clientAddress,
&clientAddressLength);
if (connectSocket < 0) {
cerr << "cannot accept connection ";
exit(1);
}
// Show the IP address of the client.
// inet_ntoa() converts an IP address from binary form to the
// standard "numbers and dots" notation.
cout << " connected to " << inet_ntoa(clientAddress.sin_addr);
// Show the client's port number.
// ntohs() converts a short int from network byte order (which is
// Most Significant Byte first) to host byte order (which on x86,
// for example, is Least Significant Byte first).
cout << ":" << ntohs(clientAddress.sin_port) << "\n";
// Read lines from socket, using recv(), storing them in the line
// array. If no messages are currently available, recv() blocks
// until one arrives.
// First set line to all zeroes, so we'll know where the end of
// the string is.
memset(line, 0x0, LINE_ARRAY_SIZE);
while (recv(connectSocket, line, MAX_MSG, 0) > 0) {
cout << " -- " << line << "\n";
// Convert line to upper case.
for (i = 0; line[i] != '\0'; i++)
line[i] = toupper(line[i]);
// Send converted line back to client.
if (send(connectSocket, line, strlen(line) + 1, 0) < 0)
cerr << "Error: cannot send modified data";
memset(line, 0x0, LINE_ARRAY_SIZE); // set line to all zeroes
}
}
}
tcp-client.cc
Code:
#include <netdb.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <iostream>
#define MAX_LINE 100
#define LINE_ARRAY_SIZE (MAX_LINE+1)
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int socketDescriptor;
unsigned short int serverPort;
struct sockaddr_in serverAddress;
struct hostent *hostInfo;
char buf[LINE_ARRAY_SIZE], c;
cout << "Enter server host name or IP address: ";
cin.get(buf, MAX_LINE, '\n');
// gethostbyname() takes a host name or ip address in "numbers and
// dots" notation, and returns a pointer to a hostent structure,
// which we'll need later. It's not important for us what this
// structure is actually composed of.
hostInfo = gethostbyname(buf);
if (hostInfo == NULL) {
cout << "problem interpreting host: " << buf << "\n";
exit(1);
}
cout << "Enter server port number: ";
cin >> serverPort;
cin.get(c); // dispose of the newline
// Create a socket. "AF_INET" means it will use the IPv4 protocol.
// "SOCK_STREAM" means it will be a reliable connection (i.e., TCP;
// for UDP use SOCK_DGRAM), and I'm not sure what the 0 for the last
// parameter means, but it seems to work.
socketDescriptor = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
if (socketDescriptor < 0) {
cerr << "cannot create socket\n";
exit(1);
}
// Connect to server. First we have to set some fields in the
// serverAddress structure. The system will assign me an arbitrary
// local port that is not in use.
serverAddress.sin_family = hostInfo->h_addrtype;
memcpy((char *) &serverAddress.sin_addr.s_addr,
hostInfo->h_addr_list[0], hostInfo->h_length);
serverAddress.sin_port = htons(serverPort);
if (connect(socketDescriptor,
(struct sockaddr *) &serverAddress,
sizeof(serverAddress)) < 0) {
cerr << "cannot connect\n";
exit(1);
}
cout << "\nEnter some lines, and the server will modify them and\n";
cout << "send them back. When you are done, enter a line with\n";
cout << "just a dot, and nothing else.\n";
cout << "If a line is more than " << MAX_LINE << " characters, then\n";
cout << "only the first " << MAX_LINE << " characters will be used.\n\n";
// Prompt the user for input, then read in the input, up to MAX_LINE
// charactars, and then dispose of the rest of the line, including
// the newline character.
cout << "Input: ";
cin.get(buf, MAX_LINE, '\n');
while (cin.get(c) && c != '\n')
;
// Stop when the user inputs a line with just a dot.
while (strcmp(buf, ".")) {
// Send the line to the server.
if (send(socketDescriptor, buf, strlen(buf) + 1, 0) < 0) {
cerr << "cannot send data ";
close(socketDescriptor);
exit(1);
}
// Zero out the buffer.
memset(buf, 0x0, LINE_ARRAY_SIZE);
// Read the modified line back from the server.
if (recv(socketDescriptor, buf, MAX_LINE, 0) < 0) {
cerr << "didn't get response from server?";
close(socketDescriptor);
exit(1);
}
cout << "Modified: " << buf << "\n";
// Prompt the user for input, then read in the input, up to MAX_LINE
// charactars, and then dispose of the rest of the line, including
// the newline character. As above.
cout << "Input: ";
cin.get(buf, MAX_LINE, '\n');
while (cin.get(c) && c != '\n')
;
}
close(socketDescriptor);
return 0;
}
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