[takipci]

This is a useful thread.
I'll tell you what my plan is because i am also at the beginning stages. As I have loaded up MySQL Apachie and PHP i will not be going down the ASP route. It seems to me that I should pick either PHP or ASP to concentrate on ( is that correct ?)

Most people seem to be saying good stuff about PHP so I'll go that route. I did do some work in C++ and in VBasic before but as I mainly want to work with MySQL, I'll use PHP.

I saw somewhaer someone say that Pearl/cgi-bin is outdated and there's not point to it. I did not want to have to learn that as well.

I guess that between Javascript and PHP ( and incorparating CSS with the HTML )I should be able to do most things.
Is that about right ? or should I learn something else as well before I tackle some projects ?

My projects are mainly database driven not much need for fancy graphics.

Most am also happy to have any extra guidance.

[EvilHaider]

I've used many: C/C++, C#, VB, VB.NET, ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, HTML, and so on...

[infinitylimit]

Perl isn't nessacerily outdated. It hasn't seen as many revs as other languages recently but that is because it's an old language when compared.

There are still somethings that perl will do that PHP won't. I just recently ran up against the need to tell if something is uploading how much is done. In PHP there is no support to read raw post data. To do this in php would be riduclous. Perl on the other hand has no problem.

Perl also has many scripts available for use where newer languages have many but not nearly like perl.

I'm not avocating learning Perl, I'm just correcting the statement it's outdated. Saying it's outdated is saying ISO C++ is outdated.

If I was to tell you a language to learn for internet programming I would be biast and say PHP. But to tell you the truth they all have there nice features. I like ASP especially if you know your clients will only be using internet explorer, there are some amazing things you can do really easily with that windows server/sql server/internet explorer framework.

Coldfusion does some neat things to, along with JSP.

I would say pick one. Then open up the newspaper and see if there is anyone hiring and be your own judge if you've chose right.

[polanhe]

Visual Basic, Delphi, .NET.

[ArmedGeek]

My primary language is Perl. I've dabbled in php, c, c++ but Perl really is a 'swiss-army chainsaw'. I use it for small utilities, web apps, sysadmin scripts, etc. I do more system administration in perl than bash (although bash is a REALLY good 'language').

I'm involved in a handful of software projects right now in Perl, but when I finish those off I will begin learning Python as it seems that it is the next 'up-and-commer'.

Not intending to be insulting, but I've always viewed php as more of a toy than a programming language. I've never found anything that I could do with php that I couldn't do as well or better with a more established/complete language. In my experience, there's nothing you can't do with just Perl and C.

I have heard that php transfers better between *nix and windows than perl but I don't code for windows so it's not an issue for me.

[feha]

php/mySQL
best combination, best value

[hardcoded]

C++ language is ungraceful, ugly (VB is worse, but isn't worth mentionning). I could say Delphi instead of Object Pascal, but I'm in the process of going cross-platform using Free Pascal Compiler, so I'm not really programming in Delphi.

As for the webpage, I write my content in XML files, and render them with XSLT.

[tolongges]

I don't use any (yet). But I am planning to use PHP/MySQL. Is it good? By the way, newbie here from the Philippines.

[Kei]

PHP, Perl,MySQL, HTML, JavaScript,CSS, and Java

[colusion.com]

ColdFusion, HTML, CSS

ColdFusion does the exact same things PHP can and then some, the big difference is how many less lines of code you have to write to do the exact same thing! In PHP, it takes many lines of code just to connect to an SQL database, but in ColdFusion, I can do it in as little as 3 lines of code.

The HTML and CSS are just add ons to the ColdFusion. You have to know HTML for almost any language. It's used in PHP, ColdFusion, ASP, and many others. Same with CSS.