in laymans term please
2007-03-15 14:27:44 · 2 answers · asked by nelesme 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
PHP is a server scripting language. It allows you to write code that effects the HTML that is displayed to the user. It is different from HTML, which is static; PHP "dynamically" creates the HTML the browser will display.
The different extensions are used to help the Web browser know what is being requested and how to process the request. .php identifies the page as a PHP page, and signals the server it needs to process the code on the page.
2007-03-15 14:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whether you refer to .php, .asp, .aspx, .cfm, .jsp ...etc. they are all web scripting languages and having this extension is a way to let the "web server" (IIS, Apache, TomCat ...etc.) recognize a page to be one of those server-side scripting languages sending that web server a request to process.
2007-03-15 23:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by Coosa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋