Star a website

[Forseth11]

I need help.

I am trying to make the console star a website. I want to make It so you type in a website and then It starts it up.

if (URL == 3){ 
			string Search; 
			cout << "Enter URL: "; 
			cin >> Search; 
			cout << "\nStarting: " << Search; 
			system("start Search");}

I can't get system to recognize Search as a data type and not a word.

I bet the answer is real simple but I can't figure it out.

[Moschops]

You're not making a lot of sense. On your operating system, in a command window, what does typing in this do?

start www.google.com

That's what you seem to be trying to automate.

[Forseth11]

I want to be able to have someone enter a website and have the console start the website.

[Volatile Pulse]

So...instead of someone running the browser and typing in the URL, you're making a C++ program that the user has to run, type in the URL and then have your program load the browser?

Anyways, to fix your problem: system("start /* Web Browser.exe */ " + URL);

Now it's up to you to figure out the exact syntax on how to open your browser.

[Forseth11]

When I do that is says

error C2664: 'system' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'std::basic_string<_Elem,_Traits,_Ax>' to 'const char *'

but when I did it, I changed

URL

to Search

[Volatile Pulse]

ugh...
system("start browser.exe " + URL.c_str());

[Forseth11]

When I do that it says

error C2228: left of '.c_str' must have class/struct/union

[AkramIzzeldin]

I dont think that you can recognize Search as a data type (not sure) but you can write the command in a file (*.cmd)
for ex

  ofstream myfile;
  cin >> Search
  myfile.open ("example.cmd");
  myfile << "start";
  myfile << Search;
  myfile.close();

[Forseth11]

No I want to do it from c++

[Moschops]

string website;
cin >> website;
string finalCommand = "C:/some/directory/to/your/browser/browser.exe ";
finalCommand = finalCommand + website;
system(finalCommand.c_str());

[Forseth11]

Ill try it soon. I'm working on something else right now.

[Volatile Pulse]

Thank you Moschops, I couldn't think about why it wasn't working.

[Forseth11]

Moschops, it gives no errors but it won't start a website.

[naraku9333]

Try

string website;
cin >> website;
string finalCommand = "start C:/some/directory/to/your/browser/browser.exe ";
finalCommand = finalCommand + website;
system(finalCommand.c_str());

Also for what its worth on my system (Windows 7 64) this opens my default browser (or new tab if open)

std::string site = "www.google.com";
	site = "start "+site;
	system(site.c_str());

[Forseth11]

Thank you that worked.