Is Python compatible with ProBoards?

[Jack of Bladez]

I want to learn a coding language that hardly anybody on ProBoards uses but is compatible with ProBoards. I already known html and javascript, and I was thinking of using Python. So is it compatible or just a waste of my time?

[california]

Python is a server side language. Only client side languages can be inserted into headers/footers -- namely, JavaScript and VBScript. And VBScript is useless because it only works in IE.

[Tommy Huynh]

Hey Cali, would it be possible if you have webhosting and the host has Python installed. The script would be executed remotely on the server and it's output could be generated onto the Proboards's page?

I dunno, just a thought.

[squalleh]

swg2 said:

Hey Cali, would it be possible if you have webhosting and the host has Python installed. The script would be executed remotely on the server and it's output could be generated onto the Proboards's page?

I dunno, just a thought.

People already do that with a mixture of PHP and JavaScript. It would be no different with Python and JavaScript.

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Also, Cali: Python isn't server side. It's capable of becoming server side, but it was built to be a general-purpose interpreted language, such as Perl. Perl too wasn't meant to be used on the Web (through CGI), it was meant to build small and general applications on the system (namely Linux). Python's true purpose is the same as Perl, but as happened with Perl, people eventually made it capable of acting on the web.

[california]

I meant when it was used on the web, it's executed on the server side, and not the client side is all. I realize Perl and Python can be used for non Internet based applications, but that's not really relevant here.

And yes, you can use Python the way PHP is used in ProBoards scripts -- basically for writing things to a database and obtaining IPs. It's uses are still very limited. You can't use Python alone to modify elements of the ProBoards page, which is my idea of what a ProBoards code is.