How fourms work/display

Hello, Can somebody help me by pointing me to reference sources or tutorials so I can get a better understanding of how pages display in most fourms and this one? I have a post in Network software that's not getting any responces and I didn't think it was that hard. I think its my lack of knowledeg and I'm not wording it right.

I've done google searches on VB Script, Unicode, Western ISO and when I look at the bottom on Vdr's page it says vBullentin and a google search on that isn't helping. So if somebody can point me in the right direction I'd be really thankful.

Thanks

To make a complex story short, you need a database, some type of serverside scripting language (php for this forum) to write data to and retrieve data from the database. The serverside script then incorporates the retrieved data with HTML and serves it to the browser.

Thanks JPNYC, I'll start reading.

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Originally Posted by Jeff Snyder

I have a post in Network software that's not getting any responces and I didn't think it was that hard. I think its my lack of knowledeg and I'm not wording it right.

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And that some of us were asleep. ;)

Judging from that attachment of yours I'd guess there was a server-side hiccup of some sort with the database connection. You can see where it's not only included no rows with threads, but it's also forgotten to close off that table -- the line immediately below "Thread / Thread Starter" etc is the page navigation block that's normally separate. :D

As an end-user you really can't get anything more specific out of output like that, and you certainly can't do anything to fix it; it's all up to the server admin and their log files.

[The other thread is http://discussions.virtualdr.com/sho...d.php?t=185759]

Thanks Tuttle