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Old January 20th, 2006, 04:34 PM
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I would be extremely grateful if someone could point me in the right direction here. Basically I am new to programming languages, although I have worked with html for quite a while. I am looking to create a website that undoubtedly requires some form of coding, but I am not sure which language would be the most appropriate for this task. This is what I basically would like to do:

I wish to create a website that allows people to upload images and put them on my website in the image category that they think they should go. I would also like people to have the ability to search for a particular type of image and to add comments to an online forum kind of thing next to each image. I would also like the website to manage its self in respect to the way that it displays the images on website pages, for example, newest images first, largest images first etc.

Please could someone tell me which programming language would be most suited to this task as I do not have a clue?!

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PHP, ASP, JSP, and some others can do it but html nope. All is about what language you are more efficient in and can work faster with. Is up to you or a developer, that is if you are going to hire one.
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PHP, ASP, JSP, and some others can do it but html nope. All is about what language you are more efficient in and can work faster with. Is up to you or a developer, that is if you are going to hire one.


Basically I am after learning a language that isnt too hard to start out on. Someone recommended something called whitespace to me.
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I can recommend you go for php because it has large community, free as well and easy to learn. For whitespace i haven't heard that before
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This is what I basically would like to do:

I wish to create a website that allows people to upload images and put them on my website in the image category that they think they should go. I would also like people to have the ability to search for a particular type of image and to add comments to an online forum kind of thing next to each image. I would also like the website to manage its self in respect to the way that it displays the images on website pages, for example, newest images first, largest images first etc.

Please could someone tell me which programming language would be most suited to this task as I do not have a clue?!
All the popular programming languages for web apps can handle this. Since you are just starting, PHP would be the easiest to learn, however you have a number of different actions going on here so I think a web framework would be useful here. If you store the data in a database, you may also want to consider an ORM (object relational model) to access the database. PHP has two frameworks with some following, CakePHP and Biscuit but I'm not sure how well they are used? If neither CakePHP or Biscuit looked good, my personal feeling is that another language with a more developed framework would be better suited, but would perhaps have a higher learning curve. It seems to me that the other popular web languages all have more developed frameworks than PHP but I could be mistaken. Anyone here use CakePHP or Biscuit?

*edit* I just looked at the videos for Ruby on Rails. Take a look at the first one "Creating a weblog in 15 minutes" as I think it's similar to what you're trying to accomplish but without the pictures. For an application that's not going to be too large or complicated, I'm thinking Ruby and Ruby on Rails might be the way to go. Ruby on Rails is good if you're not going to do a lot of specialized stuff. If you are, I'd look at the Catalyst (Perl) and TurboGears (Python).
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