From iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk Thu Feb  4 23:36:49 2010
From: Brett Parker <iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk>
To: main@lists.alug.org.uk
Subject:
 Re: [ALUG] HTML embedded scripting,	is it really this much of a	kludge?
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:36:49 +0000
Message-ID: <20100204233649.GF7474@miranda>
In-Reply-To: <20100204231028.GG27857@chris>
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On 04 Feb 23:10, Chris G wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:58:41PM +0000, James Bensley wrote:
> > PHP is a server side language which means you need a web service (like
> > Apache) running serving up your pages like a web server with the PHP
> > extensions/interpreter installed. What this means is that you can
> > write a page in HTML and throw some PHP in. Then when a client browses
> > to mywebserver.com/my_php_page.php on the server, instead of simply
> > parsing the client browser the code of the page to render the server
> > sees that the file has a .php extension and reads and executes the PHP
> > code sending the resulting HTML code of that PHP code execution to the
> > clients browser.
> > 
> So where is this <?php syntax defined?  Is it part of HTML, is it a
> bodge added by apache or what is it?  That's really what I was asking,
> I (sort of) know the difference between server side and client side
> stuff (I think I did even say something about <SCRIPT> being client
> side) and <SCRIPT> is at least 'proper' HTML.

It's defined in the mod_php spec. It's a language in it's own right. Go
read the documentation at http://www.php.net/.

-- 
Brett Parker


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