Hi,
can someone tell me which one is best among CGI,PHP and ASP ?

waiting for ur reply!!
cooooooooooooool

It will depend on what you are doing. They all have their own benifits. That answer sucks, so I'll say my favorite or the one I use the most is PHP

asp has some disadvantages over cgi and php. However, php is new and strong enough and much like the scripting language in Unix used for shell scripts (saying this on basis of $x and stuff...)....

Go for php or cgi....(priority to php)

On your choice and the kind of your website (what services information etc it is providing...)

http://www.javascriptkit.com/howto/phpcgi.shtml

A link if u wud like to know more abt php and a simple comparison to cgi....

i think php is really cool )
its' got very nice support for various
databases. Its' really a easy to write
stuff that access databases using php.

FYI, CGI is an interface std, not a programming lang

yep.. i agree with you..
ive' almost forgot about it

My preference goes to... JSP
But PHP is very used, very stable, very fast, very standard, cross-platform... well that's the one you want (although I hate the language itself: it lacks consistency).

Yves.

what do you mean by lacks consistancy..
just curious

lacks consistency
means it does not load tons of classes to execute a simple script and simply works.
( i dont like java at all)

Well it sounded as if he was saying it against php so
wanted to ask find out

You're right, I'm both pro- and anti-PHP
PHP was created, and has improved, to do a specific job: dynamic web pages (even though it can do a lot more). And PHP does this job very well.

But, as I said, I don't like the way it lacks consistency. A few examples:
- Some functions have a long name (get_html_translation_table, number_format...) and some have a short name, often inspired by C (substr, strstr...).
- Some functions are prefixed by their "category" (strtoupper, str_pad, array_keys), and some aren't (crypt, count).
- Some multi-word functions have underscores (convert_cyr_string, in_array), and some have not (stripslashes, natcasesort).
- Some array functions take the array as first parameter (array_push, sort), and some take it as the last parameter (array_key_exists, in_array).
- Same with the main string in string functions: first position (wordwrap, substr_count) or not (str_replace, explode).

I use this language nonetheless, because it's working well. It's just that it is far from "elegant", and makes it easy to write mistakes, all the more because there's no strong typing.

Yves.

By the way, in Java, nothing is loaded that is not used (except the core classes, much like "stdio"). If you use something, you import it, else you don't and it is not loaded.

There are indeed a vast number of classes. That's because each class is very specific: it does one thing and does it well. It's actually very close to the Unix philosophy. Each tool does a single little thing, and the power of Unix comes from the ability to combine those tools (with pipes, redirections...) to do what Windows users wouldn't even dream of doing. Same with Java.

Yves.