Re: Controlling a scanner with PHP

Arno Kuhl wrote:

-----Original Message----- From: Stut [mailto:stuttle@gmail.com] Sent: 27 June 2006 03:11 To: Peter Lauri Cc: 'George Pitcher'; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Controlling a scanner with PHP Peter Lauri wrote:

Probably nobody, as PHP is a Server Side Scripting Language.

If there's one thing I hate it's needless pigeonholing. PHP is not a "Server Side Scripting Language". It is a scripting language for sure, but is by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server. -Stut ------------------------------------- Stut, that's an interesting point you raised. I know it's moving off the original topic, but when you say "by no means limited to being used on a server never mind on a web server", what is it that interprets the code and where does the output go to, or the input come from? I also thought it always had to be run under a web server, and would be interested to know what the other options/opportunities are. Cheers Arno On example of a none web-server based application is kind of as a perl (or insert other scripting language here) substitute....

i.e. it can run from the command line as a cron job for instance to spit out reports based on database data, and then stream it into an XML document to send *data feeds* There are also some plug-ins or one-offs that use PHP to create VB-like applications that run on end user desktops.. http://winbinder.org/index.php Just a few of many examples I suppose. -brad