The Little Guy Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 How/where can I find out what scripting language a web site is written in? I'm talking about sites that hide the file names and/or extensions, and those that disguise the file extension. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fert Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 If expose php isn't off you can add ?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 to the end of a url and get PHP credits. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
neylitalo Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 I can't think of any legitimate reason you'd need to know the scripting language a website uses, unless you're responsible for it in some way. In which case, though, you'd probably know. For curiosity's sake, can you explain why you need to know this? Off of the top of my head, I don't think there's any sure-fire way to figure out a website's scripting language. You could maybe scour the HTML source and see if it refers to any files with obvious file extensions. You should know, however, that file extensions aren't a dead give-away. I think it would be a pretty good security-through-obscurity measure to have Apache parse, for example, .pl files with the PHP engine. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Or ?=PHPE9568F34-D428-11d2-A769-00AA001ACF42 which will get the PHP logo (as in my avatar): Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 For curiosity's sake, can you explain why you need to know this? I want to see what languages are the most popular among large online companies/sites. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustinnoe Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 Yahoo uses php Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201275 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Just search for "web scripting language stats". I found this: http://www.dedasys.com/articles/language_popularity.html Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Just search for "web scripting language stats". I found this: http://www.dedasys.com/articles/language_popularity.html Interesting... I wonder what people mean by "windows programming". Additionally you could use Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=php%2C+perl%2C+python%2C+asp People search more for PHP than ASP, Perl and Python, but there are more news references for ASP. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Seeing as Ruby is popular as well, here is a new link: http://www.google.com/trends?q=php%2C+perl%2C+python%2C+asp%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roopurt18 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 http://www.dedasys.com/articles/language_popularity.html Looks like cobol is on the rise! I can't believe VB is so high up there. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201874 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ober Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Interesting... I wonder what people mean by "windows programming". If I had to guess... probably things dealing with Win32 API, MVC, and other windows specific APIs. Dealing with items related to the Windows operating system that don't necessarily involve a specific language. The same could be said for "unix programming"... surely you could lump the other languages into these categories, but there are specific items that fall into OS programming than a specific language. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/41533-programing-languages/#findComment-201906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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