Software and Web Application
Design and Development

Server Side Scripting

Server side scripting is concerned with programming the behaviour of the web server to provide functionality and processing, all of which takes place takes place on the server, not the client machine. This has several advantages

• development code is hidden from users, enhancing security
• browser incompatibilities are less important
• highly specified server platforms can be employed to improve performance
• The application architecture can be partitioned to enhance efficiency and improve security and maintainability

and it can be used to disribute the workload between web servers and their clients. A number of programming klanguages are available, including Javascript and VBScript.

A number of scripting languages are available including

• PHP - an Open Source language which can run on a number of platforms e.g an Apache Web Server running on Linux
• Microsofts ASP.net development platform e.g. using VBScript, hosted on a Windows Web Server

Server side scripts can be used to build dynamic, secure e-commerce sites.