invidious3

Thanks very much thorpe, you put it very well. Thank you so much. I think you are completely right. The grass is always greener. Might as well stick with what you know for now and I'm sure there is so much more I can do with PHP than I currently can since, as I said previously, I'm a complete n00b.

I have been recently hit with the question of whether I should stick with PHP (I know a fair bit about it but clearly am more beginner than expert) or if I should try to pick up Ruby On Rails (I know very little of Ruby On Rails but I hear it is the new premier rapid development tool for web 2.0). I just wanted to get some opinions of what people think would be a better option in the future. Thanks.

What is the current standard for password security? I have used md5() but I see that people are building libraries to streamline the brute force attack. I have seen other people md5(md5)) their stuff but as a cryptography student in college, I know that this doesn't strengthen the encryption but it would be a mild stopgap against the libraries. I also understand that there is a way to build a library against any type of encryption, but I wanted to see if there was a new common standard other than md5. Thanks.

Is there a way to compare textareas in PHP?