PHP

From MapbenderWiki

PHP, which stands for "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated webpages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP.

Mapbender uses PHP as server side scripting language to generate HTML pages with embedded map frames. Additionally PHP scripts generate JavaScript (ECMA Script) code to implment functionality that is executed on the client. This makes some of the code less well readable but greatly enhances usability on the client end.