[Linux] DB and Web Front End

[Danny Rathjens]

I'm a big perl proponent because you can do so much more than web apps with it.
But if you've already done a bit of php just use that.  That's probably easiest for
a newbie web coder, anyway.  If you stick to standard sql and pay attention
to any data type discrepencies you can switch between oracle and mysql and
other dbs pretty much at will.

David Williams wrote:
> All,
> 
> I apologise if this is somewhat of a basic question, and for sure it’s 
> subjective, but wanted to get peoples ideas.
> 
> I’ve been approached by a friend to see if I can help write a small 
> application that has a DB backend and a Web front end.  I’ve done lots 
> of work on databases, but mainly Oracle.  I am aware of MySQL and I’ve 
> played with that a little and it seems a pretty good DB engine, plus it 
> also seems very similar to Oracle J
> 
> Not sure what language would be the best for creating web based pages 
> that can access, updated, etc the database.  Again, I’ve dabbled with 
> php and was able to get some rudimentary inserts, updates and reads from 
> the database.
> 
> As I said, I know that this is subjective, but what do people feel is 
> the best combination ?
> 
> Also, are there any tools that are out there that can help in more rapid 
> web based development ?
> 
> Any help/input/advice is much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> David Williams
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