What programming is used for blogs...?

Question

I'm studying Web Design at uni right now, very interested to know what programming language is used to create BASIC blogs like Myspace...

(ie - visitors sign up for a login, can post comments, etc)

How about shopping carts...?

Also.... What is RSS..? --- i'm thinking this is some kind of language related to XML for blogs....

Detailed answers would be much apreciated!! :)

Answer 1

A simple blog is a mixture of HTML, PHP, and MySQL. The design template is most likely CSS to allow for exact detail customization. The PHP allows for the least amount of pages, using include, fetch and print commands. The MySQL is the database used to allow users to signup and maintain an account. These have to be secure and should be encrypted.

Shopping carts are also used over MySQL databases and Service Side Security Encryption. They also use the mixture of HTML, PHP, and MySQL.

RSS is Really Simple Syndication. RSS is used so the user who subscribes to the RSS feed is updated when the RSS XML file is updated. RSS also makes it easier for search engines (Google) to add their blogs to the index.

Drupal and SimplePHPBlog are good blogs to look over for scripting, as they are written very well.

Answer 2

that's a lot of questions, but most have the same answer!

blogs and shopping carts are most often programmed in a cgi language or java (for the sadists and masochists) or an ASP language (for the microsoft addicts)

cgi languages are Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby (and many others!)
ASP is visual basic

RSS is an annotation of a website or portion of a website, all coded in clean XML.

You can generate an RSS from almost any language, the easier ones are the ones that do XML well, and can guarantee a valid rss file (XSL is the king) but any other language can do the job.

for almost all blogs or carts or anything serious there is a database behind it... usually sql based, and most often mysql!