Which language is required to set up a web application?

[arnoldsmithh]

I saw that most of the facebook applications are developed on php so i also want to create a social networking application so i wanna know which language is suitable for social networking application PHP or DOT NET. facebookster.com/blog

[1cooldude]

You will need:

* A server-side scripting language, such as PHP or ASP
* A database, such as MySQL
* Javascript
* HTML & CSS
* A lot of patience

[arnoldsmithh]

You will need:

* A server-side scripting language, such as PHP or ASP
* A database, such as MySQL
* Javascript
* HTML & CSS
* A lot of patience

All right that's very informative thing you told me. I really appreciate your views on this.

[TFoS_Fan]

I saw that most of the facebook applications are developed on php so i also want to create a social networking application so i wanna know which language is suitable for social networking application PHP or DOT NET. facebookster.com/blog

Do you want to create just a facebook application or a whole social network?

If it is the latter you should check out Dolphin, a free and open source social networking platform that you could build upon.

http://www.boonex.com

Dolphin 7 Beta looks amazingly cool.

[sudilav]

i thought Dolphin was just a KDE Window Explorer/File Manager?

[TFoS_Fan]

i thought Dolphin was just a KDE Window Explorer/File Manager?

No, if it only meant that, then it wouldn't be confusing enough!

Supposedly, there is an animal that uses the same moniker as well lol.

[charli943]

I totall7y agreed with sudilav that Dolphin was just a KDE Window Explorer/File Manager?

[Praneet]

HTML is the first basic language one should know to develope a web page, and try to use Microsoft front page its easy to use without having much knowledge of HTML.

[Drew Wilson]

*notes this thread is from 2009*

Front Page is not really a recommended app for web pages if you want to have clean code on your page. If you delete a style, it comments that line out rather then outright deleting it. After a while, things get glitchy because some of the code conflicts with another.

I've had a few clients come to people like me hoping to re-design their site. Every time I was told they used Front Page, I know it was a build from the ground up because the code is simply unworkable (over 100 style rules for a single page to name one example). It sticks in so much garbage code, it's simply ridiculous. I don't work with that program, but I do sometimes see the end results of people using the program and it's, at minimum, cringe worthy. It's a program that might allow you to start getting an understanding of basic code, but I wouldn't recommend it for a fully complete serious live site.

The only program that I know of that was worse for building sites was Microsoft Word. That program adds code I don't even recognize for whatever reason.

[zeromoney]

I totall7y agreed with sudilav that Dolphin was just a KDE Window Explorer/File Manager?

but his wrong, i've seen many small social sites built on Dolphin, go to their website you'll see a demo!