Cable Forum - View Single Post

greencreeper · 23-02-2005, 01:21

There's a nifty bit of Apache (web server), which is bolted on, that goes "Cooooo - someone requesting a PHP page" and nips in, grabs the page, has a read, converts all the programming code to HTML, and hands the HTML to Apache to give to the client. The nipping in bit is where much tweaking goes on to improve the speed of the nipping. It's caused a few problems with this site, I believe? The bolted on bit is called a module, and the conversion process from PHP to HTML code is interpretation - which makes PHP an interpreted language.

The page does not have to have a .php extension - could have .moo Just depends on how Apache is configured.

23-02-2005, 01:21	#14
greencreeper Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Leeds - the dog house Age: 48 Services: Email me for a current price list Posts: 8,270	Re: Confused..... .php / .html There's a nifty bit of Apache (web server), which is bolted on, that goes "Cooooo - someone requesting a PHP page" and nips in, grabs the page, has a read, converts all the programming code to HTML, and hands the HTML to Apache to give to the client. The nipping in bit is where much tweaking goes on to improve the speed of the nipping. It's caused a few problems with this site, I believe? The bolted on bit is called a module, and the conversion process from PHP to HTML code is interpretation - which makes PHP an interpreted language. The page does not have to have a .php extension - could have .moo Just depends on how Apache is configured.