CnC website programming fail.

**Feloidea** · 02-13-2012, 07:27 AM

Originally Posted by TheAngel

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

**Kiswabengbeng** · 02-13-2012, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Klandri

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.

**Klandri** · 02-13-2012, 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Feloidea

@Klandri:

That's what I meant

Knew that one...

Originally Posted by Kiswabengbeng

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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