Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25170

by ivan • 19 years ago

5 23 19 years ago

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ivan2• 19 years ago

PHP Easter eggs tell us everything:

http://basecamphq.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000 http://backpackit.com/?=PHPB8B5F2A0-3C92-11d3-A3A9-4C7B08C10000

davidw4• 19 years ago

Isn't that just telling you that the web server has PHP loaded into it?

ivan2• 19 years ago

If you try these strings on a URL that isn't PHP, they won't work, even if the web server has PHP support. In any case you can: 1. Try it somewhere. 2. Visit http://37signals.com/index.php 3. Ask'em directly.

antirez5• 19 years ago

Actually the easter egg only works if the given page is interpreted as PHP.

davidw4• 19 years ago

Aha - ok, well then like their own site, 37signals.com, it's the front page that is in PHP, something that has been known for a while.

Lessien• 19 years ago

http://37signals.com/index.rhtml also works.

As does http://37signals.com/index.nothingspecial

Apparently, the file extension is irrelevant when processing pages.

brett• 19 years ago

it's more than file extension

http://37signals.com/here/is/a/bunch/of/nonsense

(though that does throw off the path to the css)

joshwa• 19 years ago

this is only true of the product info sites, not the apps themselves.

rami• 19 years ago

They use PHP for include files written in PHP.

paulgb• 19 years ago

The server headers confirm this.

Server: Apache/2.2.4 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4

bdr• 19 years ago

But what about Netcraft?

jaggederest• 19 years ago

DHH was a PHP dev before he built Rails. Go read his blog. It's not surprising that some of their stuff is still in PHP.

Basecamp and Backpack from 37signals use PHP

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