Server scripting

GoLive supports several popular server scripting technologies: Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP), Sun's JavaServer Pages (JSP), and PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP). In general, each of these technologies works in a similar fashion. A Web browser requests a page with dynamic content at a Web site. Special tags within the page tell software on the Web server to insert dynamic content into the Web page template from a content source, such as a database file. The server then returns that page to the browser with its dynamic content fully formatted and displayed.

• ASP is a server-side programming technology from Microsoft Corporation used on Microsoft Web servers (IIS and PWS) to generate and update dynamic content.
• JSP technology, developed by Sun Microsystems, uses XML-like tags and platform-independent Java scriptlets or Java server-side components known as servlets to extend a server's capabilities and to generate dynamic content for Web pages.
• PHP is a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language. Starting out as a personal project for private use, PHP is now an open-source scripting language for delivering dynamic content through Web pages.

Each of these technologies offers an alternative to the older CGI (Common Gateway Interface) approach to server scripting without requiring you to learn C++ or Perl.