quote:Original post by masonium
I know HTML and some Java and java-script, which is as far as my web programming skills go. (I remember some tidbits of VRML, but who uses that?) Anyway, I want to extend my knowledge of web development by learning something like PHP or CGI. My ultimate goal is to be able to set up passwords and create forums and things like that for my site without having to use some other third-party stuff, even a complete database. My question is, what language should I learn to be able to accomplish this? I don''t mind going with Windows-only ASP, but some cross-platform language like PHP would be great. I want to be able to reach the majority of average computer users wihtout making them download the jdk2ee or anything.
I''d go with PHP but there are others like it like Cold Fusion which is expandable using C++. But PHP is my prefered choice. There seems to be a growing number of PHP users around so it''s easy to get help if you get stuck on something. Although perl is pretty good also but most ISP ban CGI because of the lack of security...
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