z99tms Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I really need to learn some of this database stuff for work. I need to get images to databases, get them back, sort them, have users upload them, etc. I don't seem to be having any luck with PHP (errors, syntax, etc etc). Knowing almost nothing about PHP, ASP, or anything else, is there ONE language that I'm best to start at? All I need is simple database stuff and eventually some simple content managment stuff. I know this place is biased (which is fine) but is PHP realistically the best option for me or should I learn something like Ruby or ASP or something else I know absolutely nothing about? Suggestions very very welcome. John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 Do you know HTML at least? you'll need that before anything. Also, if you already know Javascript then PHP is definitely the way yo go as it is very similar. I've worked with PHP and ASP and I've found PHP to be easier to learn. I don't know much about the other technologies: Cold Fusion, Ruby, Python, etc. But, PHP has such a large user base that there are many places such as this to get help. There are some PHP tutorials out there on creating a login page which includes database interaction. They are fairly small. You might want to take a look at one to get an idea of what is involved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessica Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 PHP is easier to pick up. RoR is touted as being easy, but if you don't know Ruby it's not. Stay away from ColdFusion, we're in the new millenium now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georage Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 PHP is probably the easiest. My advice is to stick with it and see what you can accomplish. Hard work pays off in programming. My more specific advice is to not store images in a database, store the path to the image in the database instead and write the images to your harddrive using the filesystem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauchai83 Posted February 10, 2007 Share Posted February 10, 2007 well, if you learn C or C++ programming before, your task to learn PHP is easier. For DB, MySQL is commonly used with PHP and is a good database server(in my opinion). You should at least have HTML & Javascript background with you.Don be worry about any programming languages that you use, if you have interest in learning those languages, there wont be any barrier for you to become proficient one day in those programming languages. PHP is going to survive for long time although new programming like .NET is emerging. Just go on with the choice that suit yourself better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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