Simple IRC connect

gistfile1.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <cstring>
#include <netdb.h>
 
using namespace std;
 
int main() {
        int connected = 0; // Used to loop the program
 
        string server = "irc.freenode.net"; // network address
        int port = 6667; // server port
        string nick = "NICK Somebot"; // NICK raw
        string user = "USER Somebot randomtext israndom :My first c++ bot"; // USER raw
 

        /** Structs that hold the socket information **/

        struct sockaddr_in addr;
        struct hostent *host; 

        /** Get an ip address from the network to connect to **/
        host = gethostbyname(server.c_str());

        /** Fill the members of the socket structs required to connect **/
 
        addr.sin_addr.s_addr = *(unsigned long*)host->h_addr;
        addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        addr.sin_port = htons((unsigned short)port);
        int sockd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

        /** Connect to address **/
        connect(sockd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
 
        cout << "Connecting to: " << server << endl;
        send(sockd, nick.c_str(), nick.size(), 0); // Converts nick string to c-array and sends it to server
        cout << "Sent: " << nick << " to server" << endl;
        send(sockd, user.c_str(), user.size(), 0); // Converts user string to c-array and sends it to server
        cout << "sent: " << user << " to server" << endl;
       
        char sockbuff[4096]; // array to hold the incoming socket data
        while (connected < 1) { 
                memset(&sockbuff, '\0', sizeof(sockbuff)); // make sure sockbuff[] is empty
                recv(sockd, sockbuff, 4096, 0); // Recieve all the data from server to sockbuff[]
                cout << sockbuff << endl;;
        }
 
 
        return 0;
}