Language newbie

[otr]

Hi well i have signed up to so many forums just to try and learn exactly what CGI , ASP , PHP all are and no one explains clearly is there any one here who can explain it to me because I am looking to make my site Fakesound---------- (http://www.fakesound----------) a really cool site and to do this i want to know all about these languages so please can some one help me ?

ps. i love this place so much information and cool people

[spork]

nice site...

perl, asp and php are script languages or middleware or whatever people like to call them these days... if you want to learn all about all 3 languages you´re in for quite a lot of reading...

you can use either one to for example build a dynamic site, that changes and reacts to what the visitor does as opposed to a static html page... this forum is written in php and is a pretty good example what you can do with php and a database...

if you want to learn one of these languages to make "a really cool site" i would recommend php since its probably the easiest of the 3 to learn, and its a quite popular language so it shouldn´t be hard to gett some help when you start fiddling around with it...

[otr]

thanx for the comment on my site and for explaining what it is i think ill go off and find one of those online tutorial things now since i have a rough idea of what php is.

thanx.

[spork]

i have a 622 page book in pdf format on mysql and php somewhere if you want it... heavy reading though... ;)

of course you don´t need to learn the whole language right away to come up with some interesting applications for your site, 1phpstreet.com has quite a lot of beginner tutorials and examples... phpbuilder.com too i think, even though i don´t go there much...

[bigperm]

Originally posted by otr
Hi well i have signed up to so many forums just to try and learn exactly what CGI , ASP , PHP all are and no one explains clearly is there any one here who can explain it to me because I am looking to make my site Fakesound---------- (http://www.fakesound----------) a really cool site and to do this i want to know all about these languages so please can some one help me ?

ps. i love this place so much information and cool people CGI = Common Gateway Interface. It's an acronym often used in place or PERL (Practical Extraction and Retreival Language) although CGI can be in many languages, including Perl, Python, C/C++....

ASP = Active Server Pages. Microsoft's attempt at a server side scripting language. Can be written in different languages, including Jscript, Perlscript and the most popular VBscript.
Check out http://4guysfromrolla.com

PHP = PHP Hypertext Preprocesser. Used to be a collection of CGI scripts called 'Personal Home Page' but grew into it's own server side scripting language. Like ASP it is HTML embeded.
Check out http://php.net http://phpbuilder.com