roadwarrior

Back in the client server days, I did a lot of development in VB and PowerBuilder, I enjoyed it very much. About 5 years ago, I decided to be a project manager and then got a Director job and then a VP job.

Now, I'm consulting and doing PM work. I'd like to get back into development and want to ask if someone could recommend a web langage that would get my feet wet. I'm not interested in C++ as of yet, but can someone recommend a scriptiong or some kind of web language that I could code in, and not spend big $$$ purchasing compilers, etc...something that is free, has a large following and has a lot of material on the internet that I could look at.

I've heard a lot about PHP, or Perl and ASP.Net...what do you guys think?

Dizzutch

php is free,very powerfull and used all over the place, check it out at www.php.net most hosting companies support it, and it's very easy to install on windows, linux and macosx

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PHP is the way to go for web applications...

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faLLeN

PHP is the way to go. I found getting into it extremely easy with my previous good knowledge of VB and there are a lot of good websites (including the home page php.net).

PHP itself normally goes hand in hand with Apache (web server) and MySQL (database). All of which are free of charge.

The hardest thing really is security awareness and debugging because some of the compiler messages can be a bit misleading and you'll have to get used to the syntax rules.

Edit:
Incidently if you are looking for a cheap UK webhost to try out your PHP on, I use www.idhosting.co.uk on thier £2.50 a month plan, I highly recommend them

Matthew Hall
www.indarkness.co.uk

roadwarrior

Very good, thanks.

Doesn't sound like I'll be able to code and run on my notebook, right? Can you run this as a service on XP (Apache)?