SSI versus PHP

[patweb]

In the meantime I learn the basic of the Server Site Scripting language PHP. I have een proper id about the possibilities and in the next week I start to develop in in. Via another way I discoved SSI.

http://www.ssi-developer.net.

Its also pronounced as a Server Site Scripting. Its it the same, is it equal, is it better, whats the difference. In short was is SSI, is it good to invest learning time into this ?

perhaps a stupid question, sorry.

 

[DRJ478]

Server Side Includes can serve for some basic functions but are inherently limited. They can be used for example to prompt out values, include virtual files etc. or output from a shell script. But once you get into including output from scripts you might as well learn PHP.
It seems more direct to me to learn PHP than using a SSI to include the results from another script language such as PERL.

 

[sleipnir214]

SSI" does not stand for "Server-Side scripting". Rather, the acronym stands for "server-Side Includes". SSI is a small set of minimal functionality directives that some web servers will enact.

SSI can be useful in its extraordinarily limited way, and it shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to learn all the directives.

But the site at your link itself links to an Apache page which states, "SSI is certainly not a replacement for CGI, or other technologies used for generating dynamic web pages. But it is a great way to add small amounts of dynamic content to pages, without doing a lot of extra work."




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[patweb]

Great, thanks for the clear answers ! Its clear to me now.