SkyLancerPilot Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 I am confused on what catagory of programming PHP falls under. I have had people tell me it is Backend and others tell me it is Front-End Server Side programming, or is there a difference? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Not sure who you have been talking to... but "Front End Server Side" makes no sense to me. My understanding is that it's usually split between front end (often called "client side": HTML/CSS/JS) and backend (often called "server side": PHP/.NET/Ruby/etc.). PHP is definitely a backend language, since it's processed by the server on the "back end" before it gets displayed to the visitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
administrator Posted October 22, 2014 Report Share Posted October 22, 2014 Diito. Front end is also called 'client side' ... as in client computers vs server computers. The client side language in the web app world is JavaScript. There used to be others, but it all JavaScript. Server side languages are back end and they include PHP, Ruby, Java and others ... they run on the server. Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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