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It's not obvious, no.

What happens is that the Tapatalk code is adjoined to the forum and the app specifically contacts the extra code, rather than contacting the normal main forum code. It's a bit more complicated than that, but that's the nuts and bolts of it.

The fact that you can only find a forum through their site is mostly to get round a rule in one of the app stores' rules (probably Apple's)

Thanks Arantor, that question has been driving me crazy forever. I've tried searching for the answer and even got curious enough to look at the code hoping something would jump out that my tired old brain could understand. Unfortunately it was all gibberish to me. I really need to try and learn some of these new fangled languages.

Heh, I can fully understand that. Though PHP hasn't really changed in several years, with more enhancements than dramatic overhauls.

The last time I worked around code was Pascal. If you include shell stuff I've played with it a little but the Pascal was back god almost 40 years ago. I got away from computers for years. Everything I knew about it is about as useful as my training in vacuum tubes is.

I suspect it isn't, actually. Take Nao, for example... before he worked with Aeva and SMF, he worked on Kyodai Mahjongg which IIRC was written in Delphi - which is just another iteration of Pascal.

I think, though, if you look you'll find a lot of similar concepts in PHP, it's derived from C and a *lot* of languages have similarities.

I need to breakdown and start trying to learn this stuff again. Is there a online source that starts at a very basic level?

I'm not sure to be honest, I haven't looked for PHP tutorials in a long, long time :/