Ruby on Rails vs PHP for Webapp?
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PHP if you want it to run everywhere and / or want to take advantage of the PHP libraries.  Ruby on Rails if you are don't know PHP and / or are playing around.  Realy you have to play with both check out the pros and cons and decide for yourself.
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Some PHP IDEs will install PHP on your local machine for previewing code. I think Zend Development studio allows you to do this. One solution is to have a PHP enabled webserver and upload pages to that for testing. Macromedia Dreamweaver will let you do this in only a couple of clicks.\n\nYou can find a lot of good free PHP Editors online (PHP Designer 2005, PHP Edit etc). If you want something a little bit more powerful I'd recommend JEdit or Eclipse. Some of these have native support for managing file uploads or have plugins available.
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I would look for apps that are already PHP with MySQL that are GPL licensed.  Contact the people that develop those apps --> http://www.Gallery.com is one place that you should try.  I was at a company that took their code and modified the heck out of it [we had our own staff to do it, but if you pay them most programmers will do pretty much anything.]
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previous answer was b/s\n\nphp is a superior product and free (opensource)\n\nthere are lots of good resourses to get you started with php\n\nhttp://www.zend.com/zend/tut/\nhttp://ca.php.net/tut.php\nhttp://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/programming/php/
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hard to tell really, php is quite popular, but i have to say that there will always be different preferences cause people are just different, if there was a 'best' programming language then the others would have perished eventually, but since forever there was basic/c/pascal and their children and grandchildren are still here at the same time new stuff emerged adopting some of this and that, i say go for something u like that is versatile and stick to it until you are proficient in it, you'll find u can do just about anything with it
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Yahoo! uses PHP.\n\nhttp://public.yahoo.com/~radwin/
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Your question is a bit too broad to answer fully.\n\nThat said, you can use PHP just like you would any old HTML document.\n\nPHP will already be installed by your Web hosting company. You shouldn't need to install anything.\n\nMySQL is not really a language; it's a relational database management system.\n\nGenerally speaking, if you intend to make a data-driven Web site, you need to have the data -- or, at least its structures -- in place before you can begin programming. \n\nYou should start by getting a copy of "PHP For Dummies." It really will help you.
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Hello,\n\nWell there are over 421 active projects at my favorite open source project Sourceforge.net so here's the list of Ruby based projects http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=293 from which you can find one you're intrested in.\n\nHave fun! \n\nP.S. Please close your question if you feel I've answered your question so I can recieve extra points. \n\nThanks,\n\nV
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definitely, PHP. (If you have to choose from these three that is - otherwise, I would have voted for perl). \nWhen you talk about web, and/or text processing, php (or perl) is THE tool for you. Nothing comes close in ease of use, and effectiveness (of both run-time and development). \nSeveral pages of a C++ or java  program are usually translated to 2-3 lines of perl or php.\n... and no, there are no "security issues",  if your server is configured properly. And if it isn't, you've got issues regardless of language. To be viable, security must be provided by the web server, not by application. \n\nYour other choices have their problems.\nJava is cumbersome, ineffective, memory hungry, unstable... to name a few. You'd be really much better off with C++ than java, especially, since you already know it. Java doesn't have any advantages over C++, except for some perceived "simplifications", that are really just functional deficiencies - such as luck of memory management options or multiple inheritance.\n\n.NET... hmmm.... hope, you are not serious. All I can say, stay away from micro-soft stuff as much as you can. It can bring nothing but sorrow.
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I would use PHP, ASP, or Perl for web applications.\n\nVisual Basic would be ok for a software interface if that is the language you know.\n\nSome links for you:\nhttp://www.downloaddatabase.com/databasemanagement/asp-php-web-database-interface-builder.htm\nhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdbi/\n\nhttp://www.databasejournal.com/features/php/article.php/3305401\nhttp://www.spsu.edu/cs/faculty/bbrown/papers/php3.html\n\nhttp://www.tutorial-web.com/asp/database/\nhttp://www.rcbowen.com/imho/cgi-database/index.html\n\nHope this helps.
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Hi I am a PHP programmer. working as a web Developer.\nI think i can help u.. no charge..\nor u can take help from http://www.w3schools.com/php/default.asp
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Ruby on Rails, often called RoR, or just Rails, is an open source web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture. It strives for simplicity and allowing real-world applications to be developed in less code than other frameworks and with a minimum of configuration. The Ruby programming language allows for extensive metaprogramming, of which Rails makes much use. This results in a syntax that many of its users find to be very readable. Rails is primarily distributed through RubyGems, which is the official packaging format and distribution channel for Ruby libraries and applications.
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A client-side applet.  Everything else (including standalone applications) can be written in PHP either using PHP-GTK, or using PHP compiler from Roadsend, or by extending .Net to support PHP.\n\nThere are, however, things that can be written in PHP, but not in Java, such as applications that do not require a Java virtual machine to run and applications compiled into native executable code...
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I'd take a look at Curt Hibb's article about Ruby on Rails at:\n\nhttp://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html\n\nFor purposes of reference or a crash course in Rails development, check out the book "Agile Web Development with Rails":\n\nhttp://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html
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For client side application programs the hot stuff is anything .NET, preferably c# and even vc++.net is doing well. Java is really taking off too.\n\nFor server side web programming... PHP hands down is hot. Paired up with MySQL, that technology is really dominating. Perl is there, but slowly dying by the wayside.\n\nFor web development, AJAX and straight XML with a sprinkle of DHTML. Its the foundation of the Web 2.0 movement.\n\nBelieve me, I have my hands in all three of these categories and I often can't keep up with all the work people want to throw at me. I pretty much can command my own perks and salary because of it.\n\nHope I helped you out with this.
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Most popular seems to be ASP.NET. Pages usually (but not always) end in .aspx\n\nAJAX is another new technology that sort of combines ActiveX and Javascript in a way that adds some "live" functionality to sites. Google Maps, for example, uses it.\n\nSome sites still use Perl.\n\nContrary to the other poster, I have yet to see any major Fortune 500 site written in PHP. \n\nFor the money, learn/use ASP.NET. It's the de facto standard today.\n\nKind regards.
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Web pages are mostly written in HTML.  If you want pages to accept data or do cool things like show picture slide shows you can use javascript.  Now if you want to create truely dynamic web pages that people can log in at, extract data, or search for things you'll want to use PHP.  To search you'll need a database to store info in which case you can use SQL, one such implementation is MySQL.  \n\nThese are all FREE!  There are pleanty of resources on the net to teach you.  So just search on their names and you will get plenty to keep you busy.\n\nThere are more, but this is a very popular group of software commonly known as LAMP.  Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. \n\nWhen you get all that working you can create super fancy stuff using FLASH from Adobe-Macromedia.  That one will cost ya.