What is best language to write ecommerce site ?

@fredflintstoneMar 04.2012

What is the best language to write ecommerce site with 30,000 items sorted by department and category and/or brand? I have talked to 3 developers each with a different solution ? Help ????????

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@RodionGorkMar 04.2012 — #It depends slightly on what frequency of visits do you suppose, but as a matter of fact there are few thoughts:

1) The language you know better is the best choice. It may be PHP, Java or ASP with similar chances of success. It do not depend greatly on what kind of contents you want to have at your web-site, or what is its purpose.

2) Depending on what exactly you want (e-commerce... with... items... - this give no big difference) and what kind of server you want to use you may prefer different solutions (maybe half-ready) and different languages.

3) It is not question of language, to be honest. You usually use some frameworks or CMS-es based on one of existing languages. There are many of them, however.

@svidgenMar 05.2012 — #Depends largely on who has to maintain the site going forward and what their preferences are. The big contenders, in my opinion, are c#/.net + SQL Server and PHP + MySQL.

[B]C#[/B] is a strongly typed, compiled language, which I find to be pretty tedious for general web development. Though, it make SOAP service (both client and server side) development very easy. But, for simple tasks, I find that there's a lot of [I]unnecessary[/I] overhead, but at the advantage of very rapid development. You get a lot of structures for free, which means your developer can suck and you'll still likely get a decently functioning application. But, this often causes even smart developers to default to those structures in place of more optimized, custom solutions.

Since it's compiled, the code itself is theoretically very speedy, which may make up for some of the overhead and cookie-cutter performance hits. You can't reliably produce a generalized .NET v PHP benchmark: the whole application lifecycle, request pipeline, and runtime environment are different ... different things come for "free" in each.

[B]PHP[/B] is a loosely typed, interpreted language, but the "compiled opcodes" can be cached very easily for near-compiled-language performance. You don't get as many "full" cookie-cutter solutions with PHP, so a lot of the application-design thinking is forced onto the developer, which is a very good thing if you have a good developer writing a complex or performance critical applications. It's a pretty terrible thing if your developer isn't good.

But, you do get a very large, ever-expanding library of very webdev-useful functions. PHP provides functions and environment that spare the developer from thinking about things that simply don't need to be thought about, leaving the developer to think about things they [I]should[/I] be thinking about, like how to structure their database, optimize their queries, and optimize their application-side code. But, if the application is simple and straightforward, you're often getting less for free. And there can sometimes be additional ambiguity in the code on account of the loose-typing.

And, as mentioned above, there's cost. PHP is cheap to develop and run. .NET is expensive to develop and run.

@fredflintstoneauthorMar 05.2012 — #Thanks all for your responses. PHP and MySQl it is.

@BannercyMar 05.2012 — #PHP is the best, the best ecommerce CMS are written in PHP.

@AbithaMar 06.2012 — #According to me PHP is the best programming language to develop a ecommerce website

@alanpolyMar 07.2012 — #For e-commerce PHP and ASP are the good choice for the webdeveloper but according to me PHP will be the best because ASP is very costly for web hosting.

@BrianJamesMar 07.2012 — #Nothing beats PHP and MySQL. Build a good database.

@808geekMar 15.2012 — #As far as I know, most ecommerce CMS are written in php and use MySql for the database.

@anoopsh00Mar 15.2012 — #In my opinion PHP is best for e commerce website.

@steave1987Mar 19.2012 — #Hello,

php is best for e-commerce because this type of language is easy and reduce your side code..

i'm also try in my many website like TegTechno and TegVentures and I'm also going to implement it in my new site MakemyclissicTrip.com

@igiorniMar 20.2012 — #I prefer PHP because it's large scaled, easy to learn, very robust and works awesome with mySQL. You can practically develop any web application in PHP!

@connasysMay 17.2012 — #Language does'nt matter while designing the site. what matter's is the theme and template and how creatively you have designed that site.

@brownagustinAug 28.2012 — #PHP is widely used for designing eCommerce websites the prime reason is it is light boost traffic and conversions. Other silent features for using this language are:

• Open Source

• User friendly

• Cost effective: Supports are easily available and mostly are free

• Less time consuming: Too many inbuilt functionality, just guys integrate it with website

• High quality procedures and process: The effective procedures and process gives highest quality of experience to users and Admin.

• Best coding practice and suffices all developmental needs

This language also offers free common services like-

Auction

Custom Applications

Business applications

Online Storage

Social network

@rebelweb2007Sep 01.2012 — #Everybody is forgetting the best part about PHP. PHP has a large development community, that continually grows as most web servers run appache (server that runs PHP). The growing community means that support is easy to find when you run into questions and problems.

@zipprosystemSep 01.2012 — #Language does'nt matter while designing the site. what matter's is the theme and template and how creatively you have designed that site.[/QUOTE]

Agree with you! It is depended on site UI and UX factors that you will be going to approach online for user/searchers.

@khalidahmedSep 02.2012 — #you may even find some free php scripts for eCommerce ...

@tptbdSep 03.2012 — #What is PHP?

* PHP stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
  * PHP is a server-side scripting language, like ASP
  * PHP scripts are executed on the server
  * PHP supports many databases (MySQL, Informix, Oracle, Sybase, Solid, PostgreSQL, Generic ODBC, etc.)
  * PHP is an open source software
  * PHP is free to download and use

@GudlifeSep 03.2012 — #My favorite when it comes to the web: PHP5.

But then, all languages are good if you know how to use them.

I suppose the biggest concern here is security. (we are talking about money^{^^{^)}}

If we talk about security, then PHP is NOT the reference.

Unless you follow very strict security criterias, any competent hacker will be able to play with your code. (seen it with my own eyes!)

This is not (or much less) the case with compiled languages.

As a good example, I'me still waiting for a bank application fully written in php.

You must also be aware of your responsability as programer. If you write your own payment system, you will be fully responsible for all transactions. On the other hand, there are ready made unexpensive payment systems that you may use that will guarantee you a minimum of quality and take that financial responsability of your back.

Anyway, whatever language you choose, i wish you success,

Gudlife

@brownagustinSep 03.2012 — #I think you should not much concentrate on language, but still guys prefer php, since there are many ready-made api's available to integrate. It lowers down cost of development, easy to develop. Even I have experienced search engines love it. However every programming language get rendered into html but it is light weighted.

If you use ASP.NET server cost, development cost gets higher than these open source programming language. But at last but not the least its all about functionality; If php fulfills your requirement you should opt else choose which serve your purpose.

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