| Re: Forum displays PHP code, not website [message #177391 is a reply to message #177388] |
Sat, 24 March 2012 09:44   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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P E Schoen wrote:
> "M. Strobel" wrote in message news:9t3paiFdoeU1(at)mid(dot)uni-berlin(dot)de...
> Am 23.03.2012 05:37, schrieb Gordon Burditt:
>>> If PHP itself is missing, not turned on, or incorrectly configured,
>>> you can get that result. I take it here that "PHP application"
>>> refers to PHP *as* an application, not an application that *runs*
>>> under PHP.
>> You say *PHP is* the application, the philosopher said the web server
>> is the application.
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>> I find both statements technically speaking true, but when the OP asked
>> if the problem was the application he was talking quite clearly about the
>> forum software, i.e. the *PHP script*.
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> Actually, I meant the PHP module, which to me is an application, rather
> than a script. […]
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>> Agreed that the main executable is the web server, which calls the PHP
>> module. But when you say "I write my application in python/perl/php" you
>> are writing a script, not an interpreter!
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> I think "applications" should be anything that has been compiled
> separately and resides on the server or local machine as an executable.
> The OS would also be an application,
No, an operating system usually consists of a kernel (its core component)
and a collection of applications that use kernel functions.
> but I would refer to it more as an operating system. A user shell that
> accesses the OS would be an application, which could be as a terminal
> (like MSDOS command shell), or a GUI.
Your definition of "application" is uncommon at best, probably outdated or
ill-informed. With PHP 4+ – where source code is JIT-compiled to bytecode
which is processed by the Zend2 engine (a virtual machine) – one would
usually develop web *applications*. I have been and I am employed as "Web
application developer".
PointedEars
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