Programming Languages required to develop a website like Imgur? [closed]

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I'm new to web development. So far, I have a good idea of HTML and CSS.

1) I would like to know what are programming languages are required to develop a website like Imgur and what's the role of each language that will be used.

2) Assuming that a user has just uploaded an Image to Imgur, What would be the required steps to generate a unique HMTL file for that particular Image.

Answer 1

You would need:

1. HTML
2. CSS
3. A server-side framework (e.g., PHP, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
4. Most likely Javascript (but you might be able to get by without it)
5. A database backend, such as PostgreSQL or MongoDB

You wouldn't need individual HTML sites. When someone goes to http://www.yoursite.com/image/1, the backend (usually .htaccess in Apache) will process it and turn it into /image.php?id=1, which PHP (or another framework) then uses to create an image-specific HTML page.

Good luck!

-totallyuneekname

Answer 2

1) You're probably best looking into either PHP or ASP for a server side language. Also learn SQL, as you'll need to store information about the images somewhere, and a database will probably be best.

2)

• Get unique ID of image from URL
• Get the address of corresponding image from database, along with title, description etc.
• Fill data into relevant parts of your template, i.e image address inside image tag, title in h1 and title tags etc.

Answer 3

You wouldn't need to create new HTML files every time you want someone to view an image. You can just have 1 php file which loads something from a database which gets what you are looking for.

For this you'll probably need: HTML, CSS, MySQLi\pdo, javascript.

It might also be beneficial not just for you to learn a framework, but to work on one too, as it can help you in big projects.

One I regularly work with is codeigniter and it has a lot of good documentation to read through.