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Old 11-27-2011, 01:00 AM What language this site built on?
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Hello,

What language is ifixit.com built on?

API - github.com/iFixit

I love the guides, functionality and I want to build something similar.

Please let me know what languages I need to learn and where to start.

Any help is deeply appreciated!

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Old 11-27-2011, 06:12 AM Re: What language this site built on?
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Old 11-28-2011, 04:55 PM Re: What language this site built on?
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I may have missed something obvious here but it has to be more than HTML and CSS, right? I would have just guessed PHP and mySQL
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Old 11-29-2011, 10:34 AM Re: What language this site built on?
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Nope, that may well be what drives the "backend" of it, but from this viewpoint ALL webpages are built in HTML.

And no amount of looking at source code will tell you what the supporting server technology is.
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Old 12-04-2011, 12:35 AM Re: What language this site built on?
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It has to be more than HTML and CSS, right? I would have just guessed PHP and mySQL
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Old 12-04-2011, 04:03 PM Re: What language this site built on?
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No matter how you look at the source it will always be just html and css. What actually generated the html and css before it got sent to your browser, thought, can be a number of different languages.

It can be a php/mysql solution, yes, or asp, java, c, c++ or pretty much any other language you can think of. The original question was probably what technology was used to generate the source, and the anwser is simply that you can't know for sure.

Sure, if there is an automatically generated comment or meta tag saying "generated by xxx" it'll give you a strong hint. But appart from that, there is no way of knowing, other than asking the developers.
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Old 12-07-2011, 04:00 AM Re: What language this site built on?
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This site is built with PHP code, CSS stylecheets, a few HTML snippets and jQuery (Java)

Id guess they use some kind of SQL to store information in a database because XML just wont do it for a high-traffic site. What kind of SQL is impossible to say without actually being able to look at their configuration files.

EDIT: after some further looking at the site im 95% sure its built in Drupal CMS.

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Old 12-08-2011, 02:18 PM Re: What language this site built on?
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It really doesn't matter what language github is written on, I find that no matter which language or language framework you work with you can achieve similar goals..

If you want to learn a something more than html and css, start with PHP... the documentation really encourages learning...
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