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Re: checking for audio playing ??? [message #183491 is a reply to message #183489] Mon, 28 October 2013 12:11 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Richard Damon is currently offline  Richard Damon
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On 10/27/13, 10:22 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Richard Damon wrote:
>
>> […] The one thing that is fairly certain is that the
>> player will almost certainly NOT be written in PHP,
>
> That much is true.
>
>> as PHP is normally a server side language, and few clients will understand
>> it.
>
> A common misconception. *No* programming language is “normally” either
> “server-side” or “client-side”.
>
>
> PointedEars
>

Clearly a falsehood. I would expect that at least 95% of PHP executions
are done via mod-php or php-cgi in response to a http request, and thus
be a "server side" operation. Yes, there are some invocations via cli
doing local calculations, which would be neither server or client side.
There are a few (comparatively) invocations of PHP scripts that will go
out and make a http request to another page, and these could be
considered "client side" if executed via cli, and are somewhat ambiguous
if executed via mod-php or php-cgi (they are doing both sorts of
actions, but since it is being done in response to an incoming request,
this would normally be considered "server side")

I know of no situation (but I suppose it is conceivable) where a user
browser downloads a page, which contains "client side" PHP code, fires
up a PHP interpreter, runs that code and gives the results to the user.
This is what MOST people would think of a "client side" language, and it
doesn't happen. Thus PHP in normally (not exclusively, as the cli script
that accesses an external page is arguably a client side action, but
relatively unusual) a server side language.

In the same way most EMCAScripts (commonly called javascript) are run
within a user browser, even if there does exist some other usages that
might be considered "server side", so it would be a language that is
normally client side.

Note that "normal" does not mean exclusively, but only means in most
common usage.
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