Question

I’m an old hand on programming but a wet-behind-the-ears newbie on webprogramming. I ran in to this in a project and I need help identifying the technique/language used.

It is some sort of dynamic web-page that fetches information from a database and displays it in a table. In the html-page that is used these tags are

 <!--  some text that has to be some form of commands -->

What is it called? It is impossible to google either the starting tag or the closing tag :/
I know that it somehow uses a c-program to do the actual fetching of the data, but i’m at a loss how it actually works.

What I need is the name so I know what to look for in the form of online resources to learn this and I do hope that this kind of tag-usage is only used by one type of language/technique 🙂

thanks in advance from archie!

Answer 1

Those tags are just html comments. It’s possible that they’re being used in a template file, and a server-side scripting language is doing some kind of search/replace to execute commands on the template. If so, it’s impossible to say what language it is.