What programming language should I use?

[eliquid]

You can also do the same with PHP

PHP does plenty of background work and you do not need anything else ( like ruby, sinatra, django, flask, w/e ) to make the front end for it. Just save it all as PHP and hit it

 

[ASURA]

Go with PHP. It's good enough for most web development.

 

[laila]

PHP is the best as it is easy and more flexible to environment.

thanks

 

[Leemoor]

Django's a bitch to learn though, takes far too long. You can go with some other frameworks depending on your time.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

You can also do the same with PHP

PHP does plenty of background work and you do not need anything else ( like ruby, sinatra, django, flask, w/e ) to make the front end for it. Just save it all as PHP and hit it

Shitty thing about PHP is if the software has to be portable, and work across almost any server. I've switched the majority of crontab jobs over to Perl due to PHP's default timeout limit.

 

[acidie]

You can also do the same with PHP

PHP does plenty of background work and you do not need anything else ( like ruby, sinatra, django, flask, w/e ) to make the front end for it. Just save it all as PHP and hit it

True, but threading in PHP is a bitch, and it was the main reason I switched to C#, ASP.NET, Azure.

I don't know if Zend fixed this though.

 

[seocm]

If you have zero experience designing and coding a site... don't start by going at it from scratch. Thats just going to be a painful painful process.

You got an idea? The first thing I would do is see if there are any clonescripts you can buy that do 70% of the core features you need.

You could also try open source, free examples etc.

Basically, don't re-invent the wheel.

Cause you don't have a preferred language you are in a good position to find and take anything on the web to get started with. Instead of languages, think of finding something online you can leverage of already. If it happens that its in ruby so be it.

Its hard enough testing an idea without getting caught also in trying to even get the thing of the ground in the first place by staring at a blank php page and thinking... ok so this is "hello world"....