What is Server-side scripting / Web Programming?
After the growing use of
World Wide Web, it was identified
that
HTML is very limited to perform number of
operations for example if user want to download and view their email through web
interface. There was also the need of some thing by which customer could
interact with website rather than just downloading HTML pages from the
information ware house like website.
Server-side scripting is the web server technology in which users' request is
fulfilled by running the script directly on website to generate HTML page which
is presented to the user as an output of their request. Web server can perform
any operation which a regular program can carryout to accomplish the users'
request including mathematical calculations, communication with database and so
on.
There are number of Server-side scripting languages and every one has its own
advantages and disadvantages. Most commonly used server-side scripting languages
are ASP, ASP.NET, JSP & Java Servlet, PHP4 and PHP5 (object oriented). We have
used PHP5 in this project because of number of advantages in it.