I AM LOST. please help!

[downwiz2]

i am trying to create a site similiar to this

http://www.buysell.com

where users can post their advertisments which will be added to a one major database, with a moderator filtering junk/ and spammer ads.

the database will then be shown in a nice template, where clients can look for advertisement from others.

what program should i use? i am using Visual Basic .NET right now, but its very difficult. I am considering ColdFusion.....

PLEASE HELP!

Any suggestion will be very much appreciated.

Thank you.

[Ultimater]

MySQL + PHP + well over a month of programming.

[downwiz2]

Thank you so much!

so visual basic .NET will not help? What about cold fusion?

oh and to run php i have to have Apache right? but Apache is only in source code! How the hell do i compile it??????

[Ultimater]

Visual Basic .NET and Cold Fusion can replace PHP for your server-side programming language however you will still need to pick a database language. MySQL would be one of the best choices out there. As far as installing PHP or MySQL in different environments, I have no idea. PHP would most-probably be the best server side language to pick because so many people use it and it is very easy to find fellow programmers that already program it that can help along the way when you get stuck.
Ask someone who knows in the PHP forum. Good luck to you!

[konithomimo]

I would suggest using PHP. Though I have not used it to any great extent I have to say that it is easy enough to learn and from what I know it seems best suited for what you want to do. It will take quite a bit of work though.