I'm an absolute beginner. I'm looking for suggestions on websites, books or programs that I can use to build an interactive gaming site. The website would allow people to log in and operate their own horse stable. I'd need the website to age the virtual horses daily, to be able to use virtual money, to be able to run "horse shows" at specified times. The website wouldn't have ANIMATION. I have the ideas, I just don't have the knowledge outside of very basic html, which as I understand wouldn't be able to create such a dynamic website.

Help? Should I use a web publishing program such as DreamWeaver? Or???

Amonayto learn php, I would start with this website....

http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/DEfaULT.asPThank you! I'll CHECK it out.Finish learning HTML first, otherwise PHP is useless.This is a very ambitious first project.  Do you have any programming experience?Just wondering .... PhP vs. pearl, what's easier? HTML I'm familiar with (but no expert I'll say) and HTML is perhaps the simplest of the website making languages out there as far as I am aware of.step one of learning perl is probably getting the name right. that way, doing a google search will reveal actual sites with good INFO on the language, rather then oysters and people who also cannot spell perl.

perl was designed for other purposes- it can be installed to IIS and most likely APACHE, though. PHP was, I believe, designed solely for server-side programming. This doesn't necessarily mean that perl is useless in that regard- if somebody already knew perl and not PHP then they would probably be best off not bothering with PHP for the site (perhaps learning it while creating the site with perl, though). Quote from: BC_Programmer on June 20, 2009, 06:49:09 PM

PHP was, I believe, designed solely for server-side programming.

Even if it was, that's not all it's used for. 

Heck even java started off as a way to program coffee makers...