I want to make a webpage, can you help?

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I’m looking for an internet programming language that will allow me to have users log into my site. I don’t want to do something easy like a login box with java script. Something that isn’t easily bypassible but also not too extravagent in setup. Any ideas? Would MySQL do something like this? Is it PHP or would I be better in plain old Visual Basic scripts?

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I would vote for PHP and MySQL, but that is just me.

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I second this vote… Listen to your Uncle!

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Yeah PHP and MySQL. w00t.

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Ditto +3.

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I’ve been teaching myself PHP and MySQL for the past couple of months and I was suprised at how easy it is to do things that appear quite complex. Infact despite flirting with VB, Java and Perl over the years and always getting frustrated and giving up, PHP actually seems to ‘agree’ with me. It also spurred me on to investigating and attempting some AJAX too.

So count me as another positive vote in favour of PHP and MySQL.

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By the way if your host does not support PHP/MySQL and is rather a Windows machine on which no one has installed PHP/MySQL then ASP with Access or MS SQL will get you the same results.

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cool. Cause I do know SQL fairly well. That would be cool to use. Thanks guys!

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If you’re building a site from scratch (or revamping an old one), I’d recommend looking at Drupal (http://drupal.org/), an open-source content-management framework written in PHP and using MySQL. You’ve got everything from user logins and access restrictions to forums and image galleries out of the box, and can expand it further with (free) downloadable PHP modules. I revamped my own site about two years ago with it, and have also done some commercial sites with the same framework.

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Rails all the way for me…
I haven’t seen any PHP code yet that doesn’t offend me. Sometimes it’s almost tolerable, but it always falls short for some reason or other. Well, that’s not quite true…I can stand having php in a single page doing something like randomizing an image.

I’d recommend Radiant if you just need to get something up and running quickly and you have a host which supports rails. If you don’t, then Drupal is probably the way to go. (though it pains me to say it)