Coldfusion or PHP

[Spydermag68]

What is easier to learn and work with?

 

[AFB]

I'm biased so I won't give my opinion. If you choose PHP, make SURE you bookmark PHP.net

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

There's really no comparison for ease of learning. ColdFusion is literally 20X easier to learn for non-programmers. That said, there's still plenty of advanced stuff and tricky problems, but for 90% of the pages you'd need, ColdFusion will be faster.

 

[Spydermag68]

Progamming is not a problem. I have worked as a programmer for several years, just not anything that has to deal with the web.

 

[drag]

If you need to decide, then maybe PHP?

Lots of free software to choose from, lots of stuff to work with.

Then there is also Python, which has all sorts of free software and code you can use to make things easier. It's a nice language based around C-style syntax, but much simplier and cleaner. People get irritated that you use whitespace to deliminate loops and such instead of brackets, but since everybody indents anyways it quickly becomes a non-issue. It's usefull for everything from system scripting for administrators, to app and game developement, to dynamic website scripting. Lots of code aviable, lots of apps, lots of books and documentation and a healthy community. You also have things like Zope...

From their website:What is Zope?

Zope is an open source web application server primarily written in the Python programming language. It features a transactional object database which can store not only content and custom data, but also dynamic HTML templates, scripts, a search engine, and relational database (RDBMS) connections and code. It features a strong through-the-web development model, allowing you to update your web site from anywhere in the world. To allow for this, Zope also features a tightly integrated security model. Built around the concept of "safe delegation of control", Zope's security architecture also allows you to turn control over parts of a web site to other organizations or individuals. The transactional model applies not only to Zope's object database, but to many relational database connectors as well, allowing for strong data integrity. This transaction model happens automatically, ensuring that all data is successfully stored in connected data sources by the time a response is returned to a web browser or other client.

There are numerous products (plug-in Zope components) available for download to extend the basic set of site building tools. These products include new content objects; relational database and other external data source connectors; advanced content management tools; and full applications for e-commerce, content and document management, or bug and issue tracking. Zope includes its own HTTP, FTP, WebDAV, and XML-RPC serving capabilities, but can also be used with the Apache or other web servers.

Stuff like that. PHP has similar stuff, but I like Python. (check out python.org)

 

[Shawn]

Coldfusion is easy as hell to learn! Way easier than PHP. Only problem is Coldfusion is expensive and it sucks. Remember Jrun?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

If you program, then go with PHP. I started out as a network/DB guy and I haven't had the time to dedicate to programming so CF has been the perfect tool for me.