03-30-2011, 10:37 AM

Hi all,

I am currently developing somthing for the company I am interning at and an new to developing for the Ipad/Iphone. What I would like to know is if these devices have php support.

Thanks all!
James S

03-30-2011, 10:41 AM

PHP support usually requires that a web server is running to execute the PHP interpreter over your files..

The iOS devices do not run a web server and don't have the PHP interpreter, if you jailbreak it, there MIGHT be a chance you can run those two..

However, if you want to develop an application for any iOS device, you'd want to do it using Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch framework.

Regards

03-30-2011, 11:32 AM

Thanks for the fast response Razor, Im not planing on having the iOS device be the server but rather the client. will a Website generated server side work on a device? It seems like it would

I applogise for my ignerence on this topic.

03-30-2011, 11:56 AM

PHP support does not depend on the client - all the work is done on the server. PHP code is executed on the server and respond with HTML, Javascript or both depending on how the page has been coded. In other words, any browser that support HTML and Javascript will be fine (all browsers). For instance, let's say I have the following if statement:

$x = 1;
if ($x == 1) {
     echo "<h1>The number is 1</h1>";
} else {
     echo "<h1>The number is not 1</h1>";
}

That code is executed on the server and would return <h1>The number is 1</h1> which the browser would then have to interpret which wouldn't be an issue given that it's plain old HTML.

(For those of you who write PHP, excuse my code if it's wrong - I haven't written it in a while).

03-30-2011, 02:18 PM

That is exactly what I was hoping for! Thank you for the quick responses. I will be back to this form in the future.