Dynamic Language

plecosword · 02-08-2009, 10:41 PM

I am fairly new to programming and need help on choosing a language. The website would be about species profile, a basic fact sheet with probably a picture. I have been looking at colfusion, asp.net 3.5, php, and jsp.

I think I like the PDF feature of coldfusion although I do not understand what it really is, I’m sure I can easily replace it on another language. I read it is the easiest languages to learn but not very common or popular. It seems to have many features that I do not really understand yet.

Asp seems to be the best wysiwyg thing with visual studio, I also like the template system, or the master page like in power point. I think the programming is suppose to be similar to C programming isn't it? It is normally used with ms SQL server.

Now a lot of people seem to recommend php, most forums seem to run on this language. It’s often used with MYSQL and there is a ton of help with it. php sounds like it can do everything jsp can plus more.

So I really don't know about which language to use, the database will probably be no bigger than 1gb? so all 3 would work, I have no preferance with the sql server, and security would not need to be so strict since the site will be mostly public. I do plan on adding a sub domain with a forum and with its own database.
I am not concerned with pricing at all right now, so comments and experiences would be very helpful!

searchbliss · 02-10-2009, 11:22 AM

You need to select a language that you are comfortable using and makes sense to you. You also have to make sure you can run the server side programming you choose on your server.

plecosword · 02-10-2009, 10:56 PM

Thanks, reason I asked is i found a free host for all 4 languages, including coldfusion, but Im not so familiar with any of them. I have read posts from people that know cfm, php, and asp and they say php is the easiest so I can come to another language later, Im sticking with php as a first language.