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[iGuest]

my favorite languageRecommended Server-side Programming Language

my favorite language for developing dynamic web pages is smx, for simplicity and power.

the wikipedia article on it has a couple nice examples

-reply by erik

[Nik]

For server side programming PHP is the best scripting language. PHP5 is the recent version of PHP language which is freely available on http://php.net/downloads.php. And if you don't like PHP then you go for ASP. Using ASP scripting language you can connect with Oracle database, MySQL database.

[diewpoint]

PHP made it easy for me to learn server side scripting. its fun but somehow tedious when it comes to correcting simple but hard to find errors

[Quatrux]

I also would recommend using PHP, as it's widely used and is popular. Moreover it's free and easy to learn, but you need to have a lot of experience for creating good, secure and fast web applications..

Another alternative would be to learn and use ASP.NET, it's really good, but it's not free and servers for it isn't so easy to get, but you can create really professional websites in a rapid way, even though you can accomplish the same with a PHP framework.

You can always use Python or Ruby on Rails to create websites too.

If you know Java, you can use JSP, even though I think that PHP is one the the real web languages which is only meant for websites creation and it has really good functions for specific web problems, where on JSP you need to write those yourself.

[mahesh2k]

Anyone who wants to start with ruby on rails should first get copy of ruby running on their mahcine. After that they can use instant rails which is similar to XAMPP. You'll not find easy to work with ruby on rails but it's faster and not easier. Ruby on rails takes some time for learning curve and for running those scripts on cpanel you need shell access. I don't suggest newbies to use ruby on rails at all. It's just boring and takes a lot of time to manipulate than php/asp.

[Iniyila]

I think that php is the most used language for server-side programming . because it's so popular there is many samples that you can find and learning it have became very easy because of it's popularity. i think java script is the most used scripting language too. i don't suggest anyone to use ruby on rails. Alex Payne (twitter developer)in 2007 have said :

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"By various metrics Twitter is the biggest Rails site on the net right now. Running on Rails has forced us to deal with scaling issues that any growing site eventually contends with – far sooner than I think we would on another framework.The common wisdom in the Rails community at this time is that scaling Rails is a matter of cost: just throw more CPUs at it. The problem is that more instances of Rails (running as part of a Mongrel cluster, in our case) means more requests to your database"

. I think ruby on rail is not a friendly language for developers right now.

Edited by Iniyila, 31 October 2010 - 10:55 AM.