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[carter]

Hello All,

I used to be a ANSI C programmer about 5 years ago.

However I now plan to go back into programming again.

I am interested in web-based database kind of applications.

What language should I learn given today's new languages?

As I said, i'm more interested in the Web-based database stuff


Anything to do with databases on the web etc

such as extracting, displaying, or manipulating databases or data to and from the web.

cheers

[WingedPanther]

PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL

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You need to SQL and a web development language.

[JCoder]

when performance and scalability is not an issue and project is small: PHP
otherwise: Java (e.g. Spring + Hibernate) or ASP.NET

[Overload]

Id say try out PHP with SQL

[Shaddix]

HTML: to integrate your work into a webpage
CSS: to make your webpage look nice
PHP: to make your webpage dynamicly (displaying the most recent data without always having to edit the html)
SQL: to querry the data in corporation with PHP

[JCoder]

Jordan said:

Perhaps Java performs better than PHP but I seriously doubt ASP.NET would benchmark faster than PHP.

OFC it would. It is compiled just as Java is. It can do database connection pooling just as Java. And it can benefit from in-process caching just as Java can. PHP can't.