make a program open a webpage?

[cmccmc]

how exactly would you make a program open a website?

[mcleano]

I don't know if it's the best way but you can do it using CreateProcess()

[cmccmc]

how exactly do i use that? also any other suggestions?

[PanGalactic]

What do you mean by "open a website"? Be precise with what you want to accomplish.

Do you want some hypothetical stream like this?

std::string data;
ihttpstream url("http://www.cplusplus.com/");
while (getline(url, data))
{
    ...
}

[cmccmc]

pretty much i want it so that if a certain condition is met it opens firefox(or the default web browser) and goes to a certain website. all I really need to know though is how to make it open firefox and make it go directly to a specific website

[PanGalactic]

Forking off an external application is OS-specific. What operating systems does this need to work with?

[cmccmc]

windows or linux but preferably windows

[PanGalactic]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682512%28VS.85%29.aspx

[Duthomhas]

There is also the very friendly ShellExecute() function in Windows, which will use the user's default web browser to open the URL you specify:

#include <shellapi.h>

...

if (ShellExecute( NULL, TEXT( "open" ), TEXT( "http://www.cplusplus.com/" ), NULL, NULL, 0 ) <= 32)
  {
  cout << "I could not open cplusplus.com!\n";
  }

The result of the function is useless except to tell whether or not it succeeded. If you want a handle to the process created/used to display your website you will need to use the ShellExecuteEx() function.

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=msdn+ShellExecute
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=1&q=msdn+ShellExecuteEx

Hope this helps.