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You are definitely stuck in the cereal isle from hell! But all of the choices are so tasty.... It's just a question of which one becomes harder to chew as time goes on. Fortunately, unlike the real world, you can try almost every choice available for free. I would recommend that you try the 'hello-world' style project for all of the major frameworks out there and decide which one you like. Of course, such a simple example won't really help you evaluate the language / framework fully, but at least it's a start. I personally prefer Django, but I understand Ruby's draws. That is, of course, the magic of web development - as long as it produces HTML, it doesn't matter how its written. Anyways, you should definitely spend 20 minutes getting acquainted with: * Ruby on rails * Django * Symfony Any other suggestions? --Casey Callendrello Stephen Adler wrote: > It's a web site offering services. It may evolve into a web site > offering a web service as in some kind of soap interface providing > some kind of low level functionality. Some of the requirements will be > some kind of user login feature through username/password, and basic > check boxes, radio buttons, text entry etc. Of course the db back end > is needed to store data the user will be filling in through the forms > etc. > > I've done a PHP/MySQL application in the past... back in 1998 or so, > and was pleased with the results I got from it. The thing I didn't > like was the clumsiness of PHP syntax, but it did do want I needed. > I'm now thinking of adopting python as my main coding language, > deferring any c++ stuff for very basic low level work. If I'm on my > python learning curve, I was wondering what it could do for me in > putting together a web site providing a service. > > From everyones input, there's a lot out there! As expected... :) My > only problem now is to try and choose between this pethora of > choices... I feel like I'm in the supermarket in the cereal isle > looking to get some kind of granola... > > Thanks for everyones input. Cheers. Steve. > > David Kramer wrote: > >> Stephen Adler wrote: >> >>> Guys, >>> >>> I'm planing on developing a web based service >> >> >> Do you mean a "web service" or do you mean a website offering a service? >> >> > which will require PHP or >> >>> some other type web front end with mysql db backend. The question I >>> have is whether I should dive into PHP or perhaps use python. Does >>> anyone have any experience using python? Or should I go all out and >>> do a JBOSS thing. (I'm not sure what JBOSS is, but I suppose its >>> some kind of web base middleware which allows you to write web >>> content and interface with a database back end.) >> >> >> I'm a big fan of both PHP and Java Servlets. I'm using both at work, >> though I host my servlets in Tomcat instead of JBOSS, because it's >> smaller and simpler, and I haven't needed the full J2EE enterprise >> beans thing yet. >> >> I like python, but I have a hatred for it in web environments because >> my only experience with it was in an environment with RHEL4 (the only >> version cleared to go in this USAF data center), with accompanying >> ancient version of mod_python and we had to compile our own MySQLdb >> module to get it to work. The whole thing was highly unreliable, and >> it was non-deterministic whether a change to the source code would >> change the website without deleting the compiled files and restarting >> Apache. I'm sure it's no longer like that, but you don't get over >> that kind of pain quickly. >> >> > >
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