What webscripting language do you advise ?

sternonesternone
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Hello,



Thanks for helping me out, i have a website running on my local machine, i used iweb to make it, and further edited it in bbedit.. but now is my question, what easy language should i learn/use to have some contact forms and login things (i use .htaccess now) and to show some files...



Do you advise i get on php or is there another easier server webscripting language ? I checked out the filemaker program, but thats not really it to create the web contact forms...



Maybe i'm missing something that is availble for mac...



Thanks for your input..

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    scarecrowscarecrow Posts: 148member
    Use PHP, since it and Apache are already installed on your mac by default.



    It is also the most used language/server combo around, so there is tons of free code to help you start.



    There's really only a few other viable alternatives such as .asp (you can't easily run locally - and requires MS - yuck!), Cold Fusion (a dying technology), cgi scriping in perl or python (not much that cant be done in PHP, so unless you already program in one of these, there's not much incentive to start learning one of these), Ruby on Rails (Is the new fandangled scripting/server combo - but it is new, theres not as much documentation/scripts available as well as server/hosting are not as readily available either - good idea to wait for this one to mature unless you want to be on the cutting edge)



    That's about it.. there are more niche items that I could name, but honestly, I would recommend PHP in almost all instances.



    Good luck.



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