Most blogs/forums use php to work and I was just wondering is php still the best one to use…?
From what Ive heard cms’s like wp, drupal etc are very very easy to hack into the admin panel. Is this because of bad coding or are there just better, less complicated languages out…?
If someone was to consider another language to write a blog or perhaps forum with what would you suggest.
I have to say Ive been learning php for a couple of months now and it is still confusing the hell out of me (but it is my first programming language)
P.S If this is the wrong forum I do apologise, it just seemed the most relevant
PHP is just the most popular, you’ll find more resources for it. but then ASP/Python/Java are other ones you can use. If you’re not sure jsut go for PHP you wont regret it.
PHP is more popular and facilitates less experienced developers than say C++ might. No reason blogs and forums shouldn’t still be written in PHP though, it’s more than capable.
At the end of the day it all comes down to to the coding, not the language used.
Re your comment on PHP taking ages to write :-
The higher level the language the less flexible it is by default. Dropping down to a low level language and you are playing with the building blocks of programming, ‘machine code’ , instructing the processor for every step anything is possible, but it takes much more effort and time.
Good languages have to balance between the the two extremes to make them intuitive to us humans yet flexible enough to adapt to our needs.
As with everything, learning and becoming proficient takes time and practice, there is no quick fix or shortcut, just keep on doing it
You could code on anything, but as most *nix vendors incorporate PHP into their default server stack right from the start and so many applications support it getting around using PHP is usually very difficult.
PHP is very popular in Content Management System. Its great advantage is that PHP-based CMS’s are open-source, which makes building a site with a CMS easier.