Busy — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 02:21:14 +0000

Thanks Abhishek Reddy

After I posted this I saw someone mention php.net so went and checked it out and found the answer to the question, also a few other things,
like PHP vs ASP, PHP vs CF, PHP vs Perl etc

server-side

Abhishek Reddy — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:04:49 +0000

hi busy,

php is server-side. browser doesn't matter. only the server needs to support it.

Busy — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 00:30:58 +0000

Thanks everyone for replying

Is PHP browser compatible - universal, suits most browsers?

php or cf

Abhishek Reddy — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:06:58 +0000

hi busy,

for the kind of site you want, i suggest php or cf.

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I recently bought an informative "Learn ASP" book from Amazon to do the exact same thing you are attempting to do -get into the eCommerce market. What a hassle! I spent nights and nights trying to learn the language and change their examples to fix my project specs.

i totally agree. most asp code varies depending on the server's specs. it can be a cumbersome process getting something to work specifically on your server. asp hosts (especially M$ wind0ws ones) also have security issues.

i would definitely go for either PHP or CF

Gyrbo — Fri, 13 Jul 2001 19:40:47 +0000

Hmm, kinda expecive. I heard there was a freeware version of CF. Any ideas on that?

Hundley — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:17:13 +0000

I recently bought an informative "Learn ASP" book from Amazon to do the exact same thing you are attempting to do -get into the eCommerce market. What a hassle! I spent nights and nights trying to learn the language and change their examples to fix my project specs. After finally completing the site, I was showing it to another web guru that I know and explained my situation. He took me to a site that he had built using Cold Fusion. Man, what a difference! Easy to build, easy to change, user friendly etc etc etc. For example, in seriously 5 minutes, he was able to show me how to create a form that would collect all the information and send me and the user an email... it was great. The price for CF isn't that bad but your host needs to run the CF server software and it is over $1000...

Gyrbo — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 08:22:24 +0000

PHP is based on Perl. I like PHP better because it's specially designed for websites. php.net

merlin — Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:09:58 +0000

you should be able to do some database-programming (mysql, ...).

and, of course this depends on who you're asking, asp, php or perl. i personally prefer perl, but in the end it doesn't matter wether you take php or perl (http://www.perl.com or http://www.cpan.org), both open-source.