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Whats best for making dynamic web content?
April 3rd, 2010 posted by
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Hi i want to create my own website with a forum and a login and members feature. Trouble is i only know XHTML, i was wondering what should i learn to create dynamic web content??? im confused with all the types like ASP, PHP C#??? and what programs i can use to make the content i want….so basically i need to know whats best for absolute beginners like myself. The simpler the better really
traciatim says:
April 6th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
If I were you I would learn PHP. It’s free and non-proprietary, making it the obvious choice for intelligent people.
Wave Q says:
April 8th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
I believe there’s new paradigm called AJAX (Asynchronous Java)..
Metaspy says:
April 9th, 2010 at 9:44 am
PHP is definitely the way to go.
There are lots of tutorials, it is free, it is easy to learn.
With PHP, you only need your favorite text editor to write it (I suggest Crimson Editor, since it colors your text).
Curious George says:
April 9th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
If you’re going to do it yourself, PHP is a very good choice. Lots of folks are learning PHP to build dynamic pages, so there will be tons of tutorials, etc. to help you.
One other thing you might consider… If you’re planning on building a discussion forum, there are a lot of solutions out there that you can install (with little or no programming on your part) which give you the basics of a discussion forum (sign-up, login, post, reply, etc.). It might be faster to start with something like that and customize as necessary.
dhvrm says:
April 9th, 2010 at 5:51 pm
You’ll be happiest with PHP and MySQL.
You’ll find more free stuff for them, such as pre-made forums and the like.
You’ll find hosting cheaper and more plentiful.
PHP is not as strict as ASP.NET in terms of how you use it to get a desired result. It’s also not as abstract as perl, or as rare / redundant as Ruby. That makes it easier to learn and less troublesome; it deals with bad coding practices better, so you can get things to work, then worry about getting them to work well later on.
Best of all, far more people can help you with PHP and MySQL than can help you with ASP.NET and SQL Server. For every 1 competent ASP.NET developer, there are 10 competent PHP developers.
Smutty says:
April 10th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
If the goal is to learn web programming, then you should give ASP.NET a try. You will benefit from learning a .NET language which can also be used for other than web programming.
If the goal is to set up a dynamic personal site, then I suggest you use one of the already built open source applications which are offered by various web hosts for free as part of the hosting plan. An example would be DotNetNuke or any other free content management systems like joumla.