Cymro

Arik, I've sent you a couple of PMs over the last week, to which i have recieved no response, have you not gotten around to reading/replying yet, or have they gotten lost in the mail?

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Arik

I got one from you on the 15th, which I dealt with.

Any others I haven't gotten.

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Cymro

OK, just checked my sent items, apparanty the one I typed out 2 days ago was never sent, so I'll ask you now: if I want to make a "back end" for my own website, which programming language is best and caould you recomend any books?

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Arik

PHP/MySQL if you're not going to be on a Windows server.

ASP.NET/MSSQL or Access if you're going to be on a Windows server.

Check out sites like Hotscripts for any already made scripts (chances are, someone's already made one).

As far as books, Rasmus Lesdorf (the guy who wrote PHP) has a good one from O'Reilly. I learned from a slightly more advanced book, "PHP and MySQL Web Development". However, the manual (I linked above) has a lot of good information for free.

I don't know ASP, so I couldn't reccomend any books for that.

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Cymro

What about Perl/CGI? Is that hard to use or something?

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"Let me tell you something about humans, nephew: They're a wonderful, friendly people - as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.

"But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those friendly, intelligent, wonderful people...will become as nasty and as violent as the most blood-thirsty klingon."

Arik

Perl is basically a text-processing language that was mangled into working on the web. Both PHP and ASP are languages that were developed to run websites.

I dislike Perl for running websites because of the fact that your backend is running out of a different folder than the rest of your site (the 'cgi-bin' folder) which I think creates more problems than it solves.

But yeah, Perl is a more mature language. You'll find, however, that many sites are going more towards a PHP solution than a Perl.

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Stag

Unrelated, really, but when I first read the topic post, I thought Cym was asking you if you had PMS and that's why you weren't responding to him.

Take some Pamprin MAN!!

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