There are two types of website scripting:
Oultwood has extensive experience of both types of scripting and includes it within its website production services.
Client-side scripting is computer code within a webpage that runs on the users own computer. There are an number of different client-side scripting languages that can be used and Oultwood uses the following:
In preference, Oultwood uses JavaScript for most of its client-side scripting.
However, Oultwood does have extensive experience of VBscript which it mainly uses for spech output applications- see the example below.
There are two main forms of server-side scripting:
CGI scripts were the earliest form of server-side scripting used on the internet. Each CGI script is contained within a file stored within a special CRI directory held on web server within disc space allocated to that particular website.
There are a number of computer languages used for CGI scripts, the most popular being PERL.
Although Oultwood can produce CGI scripts, it specialises in using the more versitile embedded scripts.
Embedded scripts are scripts that can be included within the normal HTLM code of a web page.
The two most common forms of embedded scripts are:
Although Oultwood has experience of both, it specialises in the use of PHP, especially when using the open source web dtabase MySQL.
