Couple of Questions

[cLin]

Can someone tell me all the popular scripts/languages used for websites? and what they are generally used for...like why would you use the script over another one. also can you point me to some websites where i can learn how to use them?

[spork]

well, php, perl and asp is what is generally used for webpages (other than html and javascript of course)...

php is definitely the most popular one these days, you can do pretty much any kind of scripting with it, from simple forms, to communities, content managment, database handling, and it can be embedded into html quite easily...

the manual at php.net is an excellent reference if you want to learn php, i found it a bit heavy at first though... so it might be a good idea to search for a few basic tutorials and get a good feel about how the language work before you go there...

also, sites like hotscripts.com and resourceindex.com has tutorials and examples for the popular languages...