If you are thinking about diving into PHP, I suggest you read this first: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/17/PHP
It's five years old, but it contains a lot of links to pro- and anti- PHP rants, which you should consider. (Consider also that there's no good Unicode support inside PHP even after this time.) Personally, reading it was enough for me to dive into Python instead. But you may feel differently. Another thing you should consider: sometimes programming languages such as Python can be used for web-related things that aren't just running a web server. Take screen-scraping: taking an existing website of a client, and extracting its content for your use. There are libraries available with Python like BeautifulSoup that allow you to handle malformed HTML and scrape it into what ever file format you want. Then you can use Django's admin functionality to load the file into your database, making a new Django-powered website for your client! How would you screen-scrape in PHP? Is it even possible? Before reading the Django tutorial, read the Python tutorial, and see if the language is right for you or not: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/ Whatever your decision, good luck! Best regards, Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
