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[martybell]

hey, my first post here :)

i'm just about to start a school project, and i'm wondering if any of you guys could help me out by telling me which language(s) would best suit my idea, and why they suit it! (and also, how hard/easy it will be to impliment)

here is the idea:

The website deviantart.com is a social networking site in which users share their artwork. This is in a range of arts from paintings, drawings, photography, 3d modelling and every type of art you could think of. On the site, you can share your images with other users of the website by uploading your work (in the form of an image), and pasting a ‘thumb code’ into either the website’s forums, or in their chat rooms.

The program I will create, when started shall ask for a username and password. If correct, the program shall open. The user also has the option to create a new username and password, so they can begin storing their images details. The user now has the option to enter new images. If they select this option, the program will then ask the user to input the URL of the page that deviantart.com has allocated their image, e.g. ‘www.deviantart.com/deviation/62817867/’. It will then ask in which category the image should be categorized, e.g. landscape, portrait, photo manipulation.

Once this URL is entered, the program will save it, along with a thumbnail (which the program will get automatically), and a generated thumb code, e.g. ‘:thumb62817867:’. The user can now click on ‘thumbnails’ and view a list of thumbnails, of the pictures they have entered the URLs for. If they would like to paste the thumb code for this image onto the website’s forums or chat rooms, they simply drag the thumbnail from the stand-alone exe program and drop it in a text box, and it will paste the images thumb code.

When the user enters the URL of the image, they also enter a category that the image fits into. The user can now sort their list of thumbnails by category. They can also generate a certain amount of random thumbnails from the ones they have saved.

The program will handle only jpg and gif image file formats, as this is the file types that deviantart.com uses for the thumbnails.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

marty

[WingedPanther]

PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, Perl, or most any other web language should work for this. You will probably want a database as well, such as MSSQL, MySQL, etc, etc, etc (I'd stay away from Oracle).

[TcM]

Well is this browser based.. or it should be a downloadable client?

[martybell]

oh sorry i forgot to mention that it should be a downloadable client, as i don't have any web design experience. The only programming language i'm reasonably confident with is VB, and i'm not sure how similar it is VB.net, so i feel a downloadable exe would probably be best

[WingedPanther]

You can write ASP.net code using VB.net.

[martybell]

Kaabi said:

I don't know why people ask, "Which language would be best", because odds are the language presented will be one you don't know. I don't know many people who know more than one or two programming languages, although I think a lot of users here are fluent in many.

as if a language i didn't know fitted my task perfectly, than i would go on to learn the basics of this language, or enough to complete the task :)

[Lop]

Most users on here know 2 types of languages.

1) Desktop such as C, C#, or Visual Basic
2) Web language (excluding html/css) such as PHP, Perl or ASP