OnLine Calculator on webpage www.

PiotrW · May 3rd, 2010, 11:07 am

Hello everyone,my intension is to put an online calculator on a website. It would involve computing a CDF & PDF of a normally distributed random variable.Perhaps someone of you know how to do it?Regards,PiotrW

Cuchulainn · May 3rd, 2010, 12:15 pm

Maybe thisBTW which language do you use for calc? edit: looking at your post again: Is the question re. the calculator??

PiotrW · May 3rd, 2010, 1:09 pm

Hi,thanks Cuchulainn for a quick responseYou ask which language do I use -- well, I would use that one which facilitates putting calc on a website. I am prepared to learn it from scratch just to build a calc.I plan to create a calc of Market Value of plain vanilla & barrier options (explicit formulae).Regards,PiotrW

Cuchulainn · May 3rd, 2010, 2:14 pm

PiotrW,Web s/w is not my forte but you can choose between an executable (can be copied) or a Web Service (and then online). With Web services you must make a client as well.

PiotrW · May 3rd, 2010, 3:11 pm

Cuchulainn,If I chose your first suggestion... I have created stand-alone exe in C++:http://quantitude.pl/00_download/fx_opt_calc.exebut do know how to embed it in the html script?Do you have any reference?PiotrW

nosbor · May 3rd, 2010, 4:05 pm

CGIim also not familiar with web stuff, but it sounds like you need to read above if your intention is to make simple textual input calculator. above tutorial seems good, and it should be easy to adapt the c explanations to c++.

PiotrW · May 3rd, 2010, 6:01 pm

outrun,the way the calculators is organized and their quick computations make an impression. So, you have done it wih CGI, right? Could you recommend an online tutorial, that could bring such results?Regards,PiotrW

PiotrW · May 3rd, 2010, 8:45 pm

outrun,thank you very much indeed for a detailed explanaition.I try to build the structure of a calc in the way you have suggested.Thank you pal,Kind Regards,PiotrW

Hansi · May 4th, 2010, 3:45 pm

The link that nosbor provided should get you started and the guidelines from Outrun should get you up and running in a short while. I used this book as a kid to write a content management system in Perl accessible from a browser via CGI (man it gives me a headache just thinking about how the web has changed since 1998?) , it?s not totally relevant in this case but may provide some insight into how CGI programming works in interacting with languages even though it is Perl based instead of C++.