Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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sfumato1002
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Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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Im very new to PHP and would like to build a website where users can upload their houses for sale with images, text, and info.

Can PHP accomplish this, or should I do it in ASP, or is there another language that is better for this?

It will be a very large website with many listings and I want users to have full control of their listings.
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Re: Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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PHP runs wikipedia, Yahoo.com and Facebook.

If you think you will get larger, you might consider ASP...
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Re: Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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pytrin wrote:PHP runs wikipedia, Yahoo.com and Facebook.

If you think you will get larger, you might consider ASP...
LOL pytrin, Thanks for you reply.

Anyway, Im very new at PHP, how will I go about creating a website that users will be able to upload listings for houses they want to sell.

I want the users to have full control of their listings once they add a listing and become members.

Are there any books that deal with this kind of programming, or any place online I can get started.

I am a total newbie, and need to have this proyect done in two months,

Do you think this task is to great without knowning no PHP programming?

Any tips or advice will be grately apprecitated.
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Re: Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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If you're familiar with C-syntax, PHP should be a breeze. If you have experience with OOP that's a bonus.
Two months should be enough to learn PHP and complete your project, depending on it's size.

There are plenty of tutorials on PHP online, even the official site provides their own: http://www.php.net/tut.php.
In addition, you will probably need tutorials on combining PHP and MySQL (the most popular DB engine choice for PHP). Keep in mind that most of those tutorials are very basic and don't really show best-practices approaches, but I believe that for the project you described it should be sufficient.

Try to learn from those tutorials and when you get stuck post a question on the forums, I'm sure you'll get all the help you need.
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Re: Can PHP accomplish what I need, or should I go with ASP

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pytrin wrote:PHP runs wikipedia, Yahoo.com and Facebook.

If you think you will get larger, you might consider ASP...
Post of the day. :D
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