What type of scripts or programming languages would I need to make a site such as ebay.com or craigslist.com?
Question by claire: What type of scripts or programming languages would I need to make a site such as ebay.com or craigslist.com?
Mainly a site that’s interactive which allows visitors to submit things on the site and allows them to possibly message, communicate with each other and receive emails from the main site.
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Answer by Anonymous Coward Joe
HTML to display content to the users, and allow them to submit data. PHP* on the server to parse the submitted data and tell the server what HTML to show. MySQL* to store user data in a database
* You don’t need to use PHP and MySQL, you can use other options like ASP and MSSQL, but PHP and MySQL are both free (whereas ASP and MSSQL are not) and work on all operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc..) and are the most popular so you can get more help.
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