What is Server-Side Scripting in web development?

History:

Server Side Scripting was developed by Netscape in's they was need such language that is not strict and dependent to CPU and instructions set. They was start developing Hyper language "scripts" that could be understood from any Operating System. as the name declare Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. You browser will read those text as script and then it will not compile Like C or any other language it will directly transfer code to machine code "generic".

Why scripting language:

scripting language is semi language which do not have the OOP principles and methodology. Which reveal for faster responses. 

Example PHP, ASP etc.

Server Side:

Web development consists of three tiers, which reveals that client will request web  service from remote server who will process the application and give back response as XML, JSON, HTML etc.

 

Refers to the application script writen by a developer or programmer, resides on the server and responds client request. A good example of this one is the application written in PHP which execute in the server side according to the request made by the client through a web browser

Server Side scripting is a technique used in web development which involves employing scripts on a web server which produce a response customized for each users request to the website.  Server side scripting is often used to provide a customized interface for the user.

In simple way.... Server-side scripts are used by back-end developers to build the back-end software of a website ,mechanics we don’t see, but that make a site’s usability and functionality possible. These languages create the communication channel between user, server, and database.PHP,Java etc are the server side scripting language.

Server-Side scripting is referred as when a client's request is in process and if the requested script is a server side script for example: Perl, PHP etc. then before sending back the response to the client by which the request is arrived the script is executed on the server and the results of the script is provided back to the client as a response to the original request.