Re: newbie question

On 16 September 2015 18:26:12 BST, Jeffry Killen <jekillen@prodigy.net> wrote: > >On Sep 16, 2015, at 8:30 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > >> On Sep 16, 2015, at 2:48 AM, Ashley Sheridan >> <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 20:22 -0700, Jeffry Killen wrote: >>>> This confuses people often who are new to php because the >>>> code >>>> is written directly into the html file. >>> >>> I think this is the one of the causes of confusion. HTML is written >>> directly into a PHP file. :) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ash >>> >>> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >>> >> >> >> Ash is correct. >> >> More specifically, PHP code delivers web languages to a user's >> Browser. >> >> The Browser never actually see’s PHP scripts because PHP runs on the > >> server (not the client) and delivers what it wants to the Browser >> via client-side web languages (i.e., HTML, CSS, JavaScript et al). >> In other words, by the time the Browser see’s anything, PHP is >> finished. >> >> Cheers, >> >> tedd > >O.K. this is another way of looking at it. > >But as I understand it, when the web server is asked to produce a >resource in the form of a text file with a .php extention > >the raw html/css/javascript it sees it delivers directly. When it sees > >opening and closing php tags it hands that >off to the php interpreter which then returns the result to the >server. Then the server delivers the result of the >php code processing. In files that are included, that have no html, >nothing is sent to the client unless there is >a print or echo statement in that file. With a print or echo statement > >it is still the server which sends it as html >and text. It is possible to have a resource with a php extention, that > >has no php code in it, only html/css/javascript. >That would get sent. > >JK >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Almost. Actually, it's the web server which sees that as non-php content and just outputs it to the standard output to be sent to your browser. most web servers, when not told what type of content is being sent (with a header call) will default to HTML. Now, if you had set a different header, the browser would think your output wasn't HTML, and would probably crap out. It's still HTML in your PHP files, hence the need for the specific file extension. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.