Interesting Question

[MrGrammar]

[robert adams]

[MrGrammar]

[robert adams]

I am not positive about this but I don't think that the page (content) exists as a web page anywhere except on the browser of the person calling the page.

The php outputs to the person's browser a combination of the html written in the php and the content it calls for.

The actual web page is not sitting there waiting for a person to call for it in their browser. All of the individual parts of it are sent to the browser to be assembled there.

If all of this is true, then the SE would never see the completed page only the php file.

I could be wrong, I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.


robert

[MrGrammar]

I understand what you are saying, but how can a page be called without rendering all of the parts?

My understand (and I may be very wrong) is that PHP is assembled on the server and then sent to the browser because the PHP functions reside on the server. If this is true, then any access of the page other than through local server access, telnet, or ftp would cause the server to render the page first before sending.

I guess my first question would be which comes first: the rendering on the server or the rendering in the browser?

My 2nd question is how does a S.E. crawl pages? Is it like a browser or does it have some way to access the page without rendering it?

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