What programming language should be used for my website?

It seems like there are many programming languages out there. I see wierd names i do not understand all the time. What are the most widley used to make a website? My website would include a wizard to search content, a few forums, a place to post pics and videos and links to adveritsers. What is the best code to use or mix of codes to use?

What programming language should be used for my website?
The basic web page is written in HTML. This is a markup language rather than a programming language, and the document is downloaded and parsed by your browser. It can include CSS (cascading style sheets) to give 'styles' to the various 'elements' on the page (for instance you can set each image to have a dotted border round it if you so wish). You can include javascript or VB script in web pages in order to run programs (scripts) on your page. All of these run on the browser.


You can have serverside languages like PHP, PERL, ASP etc which can access files and databeses and other recources on the server and produce a page using that data. It outputs the data using HTML/CSS/Javacsript (as above). The beauty of using these languages is you can write a script for, say, a blog, get user input via HTML forms, store it in a databese, then recall it and display it neatly formatted with HTML via another script.





For what you want, PHP and MySQL database would be a good setup
Reply:for my site i use obviously html and php and i know ppl who also use ajax
Reply:HTML is the base of all websites. many invlude other supplement languages such as PHP ASP and javascropt. If you have no experience just use an editor like frontpage
Reply:Selection of programming depends upon a number of factors. Of course, to meet your requirments you would require a server side language to programmatically create webpages that you need. Two good technologies that are widely used are php and Asp( also .Net). But before selecting any language check following parameters





1. Your past experience in such programming


2. Ease of use


3. Available Help over the internet


4. Available source code


5. Cost of Deployment





If I consider all these factors I would select PHP.
Reply:You should learn how to program first before you choose the language. How can you know what to use until you know what languages you are good at and prefer?
Reply:Rebol to write your HTML and javascript.
Reply:The clear answer is assembly. It would show everyone how hardcore you are.
Reply:PHP to create the HTML pages programatically, embedded with minor pieces of JavaScript as necessary.

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