how does howstuffworks.com archive its articles

[KahunaHube]

if you go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/ and look at the articles, you will notice how they file away their articles. Does anyone know what sort of language they use to do this? i know that they did not hard code everything into .html files.

And if someone does know, can they please explain how they used such a language while archiving the files with a .html ending?

hope i didnt confuse anyone 🙂
thanks!

 

[kt]

Well, the webserver is running Solaris 8 with Apache/PHP. So, I will go on a limb and say they are using PHP to do the archiving. Just because the files have the .htm extension doesn't necessary mean they are HTML codes. You can configure Apache to let the PHP engine to parse any file extensions you wish. I guess they have the PHP engine parse all .htm files as well.

 

[KahunaHube]

so they would have a script to also parse the querystring also then right? does anyone know how to do that?

 

[kt]

With PHP and any other programming languages, the query string is automatically parsed by their respective engine. IE: in PHP, you can access the variable specified by the query string thru $_GET['variablename'].