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Oooood Aubergine Mincemeat Thu 10th Nov '05 3:45PM 242 Posts Member Since 15th Apr '03

I've often wondered just what magical technologies go into making this here forum actually work. Now I'm guessing that there's one big fat database sitting in the background storing all of the posts and boards. I also assume that everytime I view a board then I'm seeing the results of a database query. Is this the magical SQL of which they speak?

Dregan a flim flam is as good as a shim sham sam Fri 11th Nov '05 10:44AM 843 Posts Member Since 13th Apr '04

Spanners will probably be along shortly with a wonderful explanation, probably with block diagrams and possibly snippets of code if you're a good boy, but allow me to beat him to the punch and summate: Yes.

Spanners* Misses his big brother :( Fri 11th Nov '05 3:09PM 4597 Posts Member Since 7th Apr '03

In a very broad overview kinda way, this forum is built with a php engine running MySQL queries and producing HTML, javascript and css code. That's 5 whole languages! All data manipulation is done via SQL queries - they are involved in every single page of the forum. Any specific sorta code snippets you want to see?

Oooood Aubergine Mincemeat Sun 13th Nov '05 11:44AM 242 Posts Member Since 15th Apr '03

I don't think I'd be able to understand the code itself. I understand what most of those languages are, but php and css? What do they do? I feel i should know php, but what does it stand for?

Demian* Oh Lordy, Plegaleggole Sun 13th Nov '05 5:19PM 4678 Posts Member Since 7th Apr '03

Oooood was bold enough to comment: I feel i should know php, but what does it stand for? Wiki says: Originally, PHP stood for "Personal Home Page". Today, the official meaning is the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor". Some fans of this language also use the label "Pretty Hypertext Preprocessor". As I understand it php is a language whose main output is HTML. So it's used to generate the actual HTML of the page you're looking at now.

General* Windows Bob - the best! Sun 13th Nov '05 5:35PM 4213 Posts Member Since 7th Apr '03

PHP is for server side stuff where as JavaScript executes on the client.

Spanners* Misses his big brother :( Sun 13th Nov '05 7:02PM 4597 Posts Member Since 7th Apr '03

Yeah PHP is an equivalent to ASP/VBScript. They are server-side interpreted language Although these languages are mainly used for internet applications and therefore do a lot of production of HTML code. However they are full languages in their own right and can be used for a vast array of things - I have seen some very nice PHP image editors, it is clearly very good for database integration and its file manipulation functions are all good. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is used to define fonts and visual layouts. It's kinda like an addon for HTML. Check here for an example.

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