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Re: server-side vs.client-side [message #183532 is a reply to message #183526] Wed, 30 October 2013 02:18 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Christoph Michael Bec is currently offline  Christoph Michael Bec
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

> On 10/29/2013 4:45 PM, Christoph Michael Becker wrote:
>> Arno Welzel wrote:
>>
>>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn, 2013-10-28 03:22:
>>>
>>>> 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”.
>>>
>>> Historically PHP had *always* been targeted to be used on a server to
>>> generate output for one or more clients delivered via HTTP. That's the
>>> reason why there are modules for Apache, why PHP supports CGI and why
>>> literally every book about PHP teaches how to create websites using PHP
>>> and not how to build desktop applications using PHP.
>>>
>>> Just because it is technically possible to set up a PHP runtime
>>> environment literally anywhere and <http://gtk.php.net/> exists it does
>>> not make PHP a language which is also be used on "client side". BTW -
>>> the last update of <http://gtk.php.net/> dates back to August 2010...
>>>
>>> The opposite is true for ECMAScript which is fact used "server side" and
>>> "client side" as well also in real applications.
>>>
>>> But for sure you can name some popular PHP based desktop applications
>>> that prove it wrong, that PHP is *usually* only used "server side" - can
>>> you?
>>
>> It seems you're not taken into account command line applications, for
>> which PHP is well suited.[1] These often run outside of any
>> client-server context, such as phing and phpunit (which I am using
>> "every" day), for instance.
>>
>> [1] <http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php>
>>
>
> Sure, there are command line applications. But what percentage of the
> PHP scripts out there fall into this case?

Thomas said (see above for reference):

| *No* programming language is “normally” either
| “server-side” or “client-side”.

Pointing out a single PHP application that runs neither "server-side"
nor "client-side" proves this statement wrt. PHP (that doesn't prove the
argument, though, but one can easily imagine any programming language to
be used outside a client-server context). I pointed out two such
applications.

> You're as bad as Pointed Head. You don't understand what the term
> "Normal" means. Maybe you're in the same alternate universe he is.

You may want to reconsider this statement. :)

--
Christoph M. Becker
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