CnC website programming fail.

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CnC website programming fail.

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11-11-2011, 04:14 PM

View the source on the commandandconquer.com main page.

<?php
$seo_keytags = "";
$seo_description = "";
if(empty($seo_keytags)) {
$seo_keytags = "Command & Conquer, C&C, CnC, Command & Conquer 4, C&C 4, CnC 4, C&C4, CnC4, Electronic Arts, EA, Kane, GDI, NOD";
}
if(empty($seo_description )) {
$seo_description = "EA Los Angeles is bringing the award-winning Tiberium series to an epic conclusion with Command &amp; Conquer 4.";
}
?>

<head>

<meta name="author" content="Electronic Arts" />
<meta name="language" content="en" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">

I think that's a fail. I'm quickly loosing interest in everything CnC now =(
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Elearen_legacy

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#2

11-11-2011, 04:18 PM

They mixed up a variable?
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#3

11-11-2011, 05:37 PM

And it is Nod, not NOD ... goddamnit.
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#4

11-12-2011, 03:50 AM

I wonder when will they work on the login page? Try looking at that too and see what you'd find.
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#5

12-17-2011, 11:25 AM

Originally posted by TheAngel View Post

View the source on the commandandconquer.com main page.

<?php
$seo_keytags = "";
$seo_description = "";
if(empty($seo_keytags)) {
$seo_keytags = "Command & Conquer, C&C, CnC, Command & Conquer 4, C&C 4, CnC 4, C&C4, CnC4, Electronic Arts, EA, Kane, GDI, NOD";
}
if(empty($seo_description )) {
$seo_description = "EA Los Angeles is bringing the award-winning Tiberium series to an epic conclusion with Command &amp; Conquer 4.";
}
?>

<head>

<meta name="author" content="Electronic Arts" />
<meta name="language" content="en" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">

I think that's a fail. I'm quickly loosing interest in everything CnC now =(

Hahaha, uninterpreted php code. That's a fail allright, luckily the code only sets some keywords and description for search engines.
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#6

12-18-2011, 02:24 AM

Its things like these that show you how often people use a parser to go over their work
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12-18-2011, 02:29 AM

i have no idea what is been discussed here, or why it matters
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#8

12-18-2011, 02:45 AM

just a minor error in the language the website makers made that someone is picking apart
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#9

02-12-2012, 10:26 PM

This made me think , Wtf Do some people look at?
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kilandri

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#10

02-13-2012, 04:13 AM

Originally posted by hellodean View Post

i have no idea what is been discussed here, or why it matters

Except for this, I agree...

Originally posted by Feloidea View Post

And it is Nod, not NOD ... goddamnit.

Could someone explain to us non-programmers?
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#11

02-13-2012, 08:27 AM

Originally posted by TheAngel View Post

View the source on the commandandconquer.com main page.

<?php
$seo_keytags = "";
$seo_description = "";
if(empty($seo_keytags)) {
$seo_keytags = "Command & Conquer, C&C, CnC, Command & Conquer 4, C&C 4, CnC 4, C&C4, CnC4, Electronic Arts, EA, Kane, GDI, NOD";
}
if(empty($seo_description )) {
$seo_description = "EA Los Angeles is bringing the award-winning Tiberium series to an epic conclusion with Command & Conquer 4.";
}
?>

<head>

<meta name="author" content="Electronic Arts" />
<meta name="language" content="en" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="keywords" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">
<meta name="description" content="<?php echo($seo_keytags); ?>">

I think that's a fail. I'm quickly loosing interest in everything CnC now =(

@Klandri:

That's what I meant
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#12

02-13-2012, 05:02 PM

Originally posted by Klandri View Post

Except for this, I agree...

Could someone explain to us non-programmers?

Ok. When you rightclick a page and select VIEW SOURCE you usually see HTML, basically just stuff that makes up a page. Now, pages can be either static or dynamic. Static means the webserver just holds HTML files which are sent to you and displayed in your browser. Nothing special going on there.

Dynamic means the page is compiled/interpreted and the result (in HTML) is send to you. So basically the webserver holds programming code and whenever you request a page, the server executes the code and sends you the result.

The fail here is that they use PHP code, but didn't configure the webserver properly. So the bare programmingcode is visible in the source instead of the result.

The code in question doesnt do much though, so nothing to worry about.
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#13

02-13-2012, 10:37 PM

Originally posted by Feloidea View Post

@Klandri:

That's what I meant

Knew that one...

Originally posted by Kiswabengbeng View Post

Ok. When you rightclick a page and select VIEW SOURCE you usually see HTML, basically just stuff that makes up a page. Now, pages can be either static or dynamic. Static means the webserver just holds HTML files which are sent to you and displayed in your browser. Nothing special going on there.

Dynamic means the page is compiled/interpreted and the result (in HTML) is send to you. So basically the webserver holds programming code and whenever you request a page, the server executes the code and sends you the result.

The fail here is that they use PHP code, but didn't configure the webserver properly. So the bare programmingcode is visible in the source instead of the result.

The code in question doesnt do much though, so nothing to worry about.

And this is what I was looking for, thank you.
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