[GoldenL8]

I was just wondering what the best programming Language for me is. I have a general knowledge in programming with C and Visual Basic but dont know a lot. Im interested in doing some web coding.

One thing I am interested in doing is Making a fourm that the user enters data into and it emails the results to your email however i want it to email from the web server or a specific email address.(not the users default email).

I am looking into Javascript/php/asp....any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[NeverMind]

if you know C, then PHP is your best choice!
because PHP has very similar syntax to C and has many functions that shares the same names & functionuality with C..
Javascript is another story!
PHP is server side and Javascript is client side..
so Javascript isn't needed that much unless you wanted to make some nefty stuff on user's browser

[goldbidders]

Originally Posted by GoldenL8

I was just wondering what the best programming Language for me is. I have a general knowledge in programming with C and Visual Basic but dont know a lot. Im interested in doing some web coding.

One thing I am interested in doing is Making a fourm that the user enters data into and it emails the results to your email however i want it to email from the web server or a specific email address.(not the users default email).

I am looking into Javascript/php/asp....any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

PHP is my best choice. It is widely used today and its popular

[End User]

Originally Posted by GoldenL8

I was just wondering what the best programming Language for me is.

PHP, obviously.

Seriously, though, I agree with the other comments in that PHP is a very good language. Easy to learn and yet very powerful, plus it's cross-platform and FREE.

PERL is free, but can be very frustrating to program in. ASP is a language I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot cattle prod. Cold Fusion offers little if anything that PHP doesn't, and it's proprietary as well (not a good thing). Python and Ruby are not as popular nor as well-supported as PHP.

In short, PHP really is it. If you look at places like Hotscripts or pther script repositories the PHP scripts outnumber the other languages by a wide margin.

With LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL, and PHP) you can do just about anything.