CGI after ASP... What to choose?

[sijpie]

I have been writing ASP based sites running on Win2000 servers to date. I am now faced with setting up some pages on a ISP running an Apache server with CGI, and can choose between Perl or PHP (with the files installed in the CGI directories for security), as I understand it, as the language.

I used to program in C.

Which would be the easiest option, and where can a complete beginner (with PHP or CGI/...) find out how it all fits together. Kind of confused with all the directories and settings that I am faced with.

Your help appreciated.

[Corey Bryant]

Since you know ASP - I would say PHP. There are tons of resources out there for PHP as well.

[ronniethedodger]

I agree....you also know C, eh? Then you should not have any problems with .php at all. There is virtually tons of support for it on the web, and you should not have any problems picking up on the language at all.

And if you are looking for sample programs (I like to learn from actual code, rather than tutorials) then there is also a ton of that out there in the public domain.....Open Source project stuff. Just about anything you can think of.

Plus you can interface with mySQL Server to handle any database stuff.

PHP definitely. You can start at their main site at http://www.php.net/

[sijpie]

Thanks for your views. I will take your advise, and have started bookmarking a few PHP sites.

All good fun!

cheers,