Re: which language to learn next?

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From: Richard Quadling (richard.onayamspay.quadling_at_bandvulc.co.uk)
Date: 03/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:47:57 -0000

    HTML and JavaScript are both really for the client side, though server-side
    JS does exists, I think this is supported on very few web servers.

    If you fancy getting your pages more dynamic then PHP is what I use.

    http://www.php.net

    I can use PHP for my CLI utils, my GUI tools (using PHP-GTK+) and for my web
    apps. And it is object orientated. And can connect to MANY databases
    natively or use ODBC for others. Is extendable and is open source (which
    means you have a lot more choice about how to use it!).

    For web development I would use ...

    Apache (Open Source and THE webserver of choice in the majority of ISPs).
    PHP (Open Source and can be used by Windows, Mac, Linux, etc and is part of
    most ISPs).
    MySQL (Open Source and can also be used on Windows and Linux - not sure
    about Macs and is also part of most ISPs).

    If you have OS choice, then there are many LAMP installs (Linux, Apache,
    MySQL and PHP). There are even WAMP and MAMP (Windows and Mac) installs too.

    http://www.lamphowto.com/lamp.htm (LAMP)
    http://www.webmasterstop.com/48.html (WAMP)
    http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/42070.html (MAMP)

    If you find Apache too big, then try Sambar Server (free, but not open
    source) http://www.sambar.com

    Sambar and PHP both have notes about how to install themselves.

    Good luck!

    Richard Quadling.

    "Boze" <zebozette@mailhot.com> wrote in message
    news:113mj5f29qmb3ca@corp.supernews.com...
    > I've done some basic HTML and would like to try doing something more
    > involved while continuing to learn HTML. Any suggestions as to whether it
    > best to look into JavaScript or VBScript or maybe CGI or PHP?
    >
    > Thanks in advance
    > Boze
    >

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