Scripting Language

[Frank]

Good morning,

I'm a newbie and I'm about to study a scripting language to create an HTML
form. What's the best language for this, and why?

JavaScript? PHP? PERL? Ajax? ASP? VBScript?

Many thanks

Frank

[Anthony Jones]

Post by Frank
Good morning,
I'm a newbie and I'm about to study a scripting language to create an HTML
form. What's the best language for this, and why?
JavaScript? PHP? PERL? Ajax? ASP? VBScript?

The answer to that depends on your platform. If Linux/Apache then PHP is
probably best option.
If Windows/IIS then ASP.NET is probably the best.

Note that Ajax, ASP and ASP.NET are not languages. Ajax is marketing spin
for anything which round trips to the server to update content without
reloading the page.

ASP is a scripting host which allows server side scripting of a HTML output
in either VBScript or Javascript with VBScript being most commonly used (at
least in terms of examples on the web).

ASP.NET similarly is a host .NET environment where any of the .NET languages
may be used to develop pages.

[Frank]

Thanks for your input. PHP seems to be the easiest for me so I'll study
that.

Best

Frank

Post by Anthony Jones

Post by Frank
Good morning,
I'm a newbie and I'm about to study a scripting language to create an HTML
form. What's the best language for this, and why?
JavaScript? PHP? PERL? Ajax? ASP? VBScript?

The answer to that depends on your platform. If Linux/Apache then PHP is
probably best option.
If Windows/IIS then ASP.NET is probably the best.
Note that Ajax, ASP and ASP.NET are not languages. Ajax is marketing spin
for anything which round trips to the server to update content without
reloading the page.
ASP is a scripting host which allows server side scripting of a HTML output
in either VBScript or Javascript with VBScript being most commonly used (at
least in terms of examples on the web).
ASP.NET similarly is a host .NET environment where any of the .NET languages
may be used to develop pages.
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Anthony Jones - MVP ASP/ASP.NET