server side programming

[collie]

Borgtex talks of server side programming to protect data. Can you explain what is server side programming to this novice.

[Nightfire]

Serverside is scripting that runs fromt he server, clientside is coding which runs from the clinet (usually the browser). Server side is ASP, PHP, Perl, etc, clientside is HTML, Javascript, CSS, etc.

Never will you be able to see serverside scripting in the view-source, unless of course the server is fubarred