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Well, you might as well ask which editor to use, as well. That will
start a few posts.
The correct answer is vim, of course! 8-)
My 2c - you will be fine with BAMP - BSD, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
Easy to get going on OpenBSD, well-supported, well-documented (TONS
of sites,
books, forums, etc.) Just RTFMs, and find the information that
emphasizes good
coding practices.
Worry about JavaScript and XML when you need to (and Ajax can be a
useful tool
in the right places.)
Unless you are an absolute genius, you are NOT going to get this
right first time,
so the design of the site, the pages, the database, the flow through
the site - way,
way, way more important than the technologies you use.
Use modules / OOP / shared code. Use standard SQL rather than
extensions.
Once you've got the basic plan, do some prototyping, learning,
tweaking, etc.
You will go around a few times until you get it right. Don't be
afraid to refactor
and get things right.
Once it is hanging together and you've actually done some coding,
you'll find the
technology/language that works *for you* Maybe you do it in PHP
first, and then
decide PHP sucks - because you had a plan and a modular (or OOP)
approach, it
should not take long to move your code to another language/database.
Whatever you go with, be confident that you can upgrade your system
when issues
are found in those technologies (MySQL, PostgreSQL, PHP, Python, etc.
have all
have security issues found and resolved in the last 3+ months.)
HTH
