Coding for websites.

theforce

theforce

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I am a graphic designer and i was considering what language is more suitable to learn in order to make a website with forms that a user can send to you and that sort of stuff. Only been using dreamweaver, photoshop and swish to create the website and while you can create a very appealing website sometimes i find my self oblivious of how to make the forms i can create on both swish and dreamweaver to work.
What language is the best for doing such things. You hear a dozen languages like php, cgi, java and is it necessary to learn all of them or one will do the job just fine.
By the way the only experience i had with coding was ages ago with Pascal :p
 
As above + JavaScript & SQL, I'd say.

ASP.Net or C#.Net are viable alternatives to PHP. I hear good things about Ruby On Rails as well.

But, if I were you I'd download a copy of XAMPP (which will do a one click install of everything you need to get going with local PHP development) and get cracking with PHP.
 
if your new to web development, why not look at ruby on rails. i myself am crap at coding, the only languages i can get my head around are x/html and css as they are really simple and not much depth to them. php and asp were always too much for me, however i tried RoR (ruby on rails) recently, and was amazed, its simply brilliant, emphasis on the word 'simply'. you should check it out.

its still a very new framework in Europe and the west, but its been used for a while now in the east, as thats where ruby was first developed.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/
http://www.rubyonrails.org/

take a look at some of the videos on the RoR website, and see how quickly you can get your web app up and running, with very minimal effort, and with code that is extremely easy to understand even at first glance.
 
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If you do choose PHP be aware that XAMPP is likely to have different settings/config than the server you intend to host the site on. Meaning what might work on your machine may not work on the web server.

As I am acutely aware today :(
 
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Thank got my main is not a mage then shoseki. ;)
Visited the Ruby site and it seems very easy indeed. I shall though now focus on learning php. Thanks for the replies.
 
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