Excuse me, this may be for all the other technical people out there, but, what makes this site run? Like, how's the programming and scripts all work into it exactly? Just wonderin' this y'know.
Right click on a page, press 'View Page Source' and you can read the code yourself.
It's called HTML and PHP scripts, Yoshi and IP write them on their free time.
Speaking of which, you admins have a spelling mistake in interestin.
It should be either interestin' or interesting, but interestin alone in a typo.
Various things make this site "run"...
A linux box running apache as a service, as well as cron.
Apache handling php which handles a mysql database, which creates a dynamic html page, with css for macros/templates, with javascript for you to download to your browser.
Not exactly sure what you're specificly asking.
Nothin' really, just wondering how a web page is set up and maintained is all.
There are two main things that make the site run.
PHP and HTML.
PHP runs as a preprocessor, deciding what do output.
HTML runs as a universal display. The entire internet runs on HTML. There is no such thing as a website without HTML.
The difference between the two? HTML only does what we tell it to do. If I tell it to make a table here, make a button there, it will do it. However, it won't decide IF to do something.
As for PHP, you can use many factors and variables to decide what should appear. Is this person an administrator? Don't display admin panel. Is this person a member? Show user control panel. And so on.