MU Intranet

[abinet]

This year i am graduating class in mu and participating in development of the intranet of our campus.However, i am in dilemma with which scripting language(server side) to use. Please help me by posting the pros and cons of diferent scripting languge sofar(ASP, JSP,PERL,PHP,...) ...THANKS.

[buntine]

Choose whichever is available. Persoanlly, I would lean towards JSP for a more complex system because of its multi-tier, Object Oriented approach -- or, atleast the approach of frameworks such as Struts and IBatis.

Regards.

[the tree]

This has been discussed way too many times.

*nix servers are more popular and considered more secure so Perl or PHP would be highly recomended by a lot of people (PHP moreso as Perl is becoming less popular, partially on account of being as ugly as sin).

I use PHP, as thier is so much support around for it so it's really easy to learn and it seems to do everything that I could really want from it.

JSP is very powerful, a lot of good sites use it and it's becoming more and more popular, I haven't looked into it in any great detail but I gather that a lot of programmers really enjoy it.

I wouldn't recomend that you restrict yourself to the common options though. Python is pretty powerful, not to hard and from what I've seen it looks pretty graceful.

ASP is old, if your going to use a Windows server then you'd want to use ASP.NET, or as is my understanding. Many people will want to tell you that ASP/ASP.NET are insecure.

When it comes down to it, security depends on the code that you write. It's really easy to wright insecurely in any language. Certain languages are easier to write securely in than others.

By MU do you mean Marquette Uni? Because if you're going to share the server they use for thier website then they have PHP already avaliable.