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Server-side scripting

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Server side scripting usually refers to scripts run directly on the web servers to generate dynamic HTML pages. It is usually used to provide interactive web sites that interface to things like databases. This is differnt from client-side scripting where scripts are run by the viewing web browser (e.g. Javascript).


In the "old" days of the web this was almsot exclusivly using a combination of C programs, Perl scrips and Shell scripts using a thing called the CGI interface. Nowadays full in-line scripting languages, such as ASP and PHP, and have been developed that can be used to build up complex multi-page sites.


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