Server-side language hard to learn?

[juvenile]

Hello,

I just had an answer from another question i had and to solve that problem i have to learn a server-side language.
Can someone tell me which language is best to learn and tell me if it takes a long time to learn?

 

[luciddream]

what language? if you're not sure, then what is it that you want to do? also, find out what langugaes your server supports. adam@aauser.com

 

[rycamor]

If you're familiar with Javascript, then there are two server-side languages that you would probably find an easy time with. ASP on a Windows (or some Unix) server, actually allows you to user Javascript as a server-side language, along with VBScript. There will be of course many different commands and procedures from client-side JS, but the syntax and will be similar.

The other language, which I recommend heavily, is PHP (

http://www.php.net).

It does not use server-side Javascript, but the syntax and functionality are very similar, having both been taken from C. One advantage of PHP is it works equally well on Windows or Unix servers. It also connects to more databases than you can imagine, and seems to have a quicker response time, in my experience.

Of course there is always Netscape server-side Javascript, which can be run with one of the Netscape web server suites, but not many servers run this.