Hello. I'm a newbie at creating a website (via RedHat 9...Apache)....here's what I'd like to do. My questions will be written at the bottom.
1. The user logs into the website. He/she will set options to a form to get specific files.
2. Once the user press SUBMIT, the website calls up a script/code that will search through a drive. The script/code will collect all the filepaths that fit the user's submitted form. To search for a qualified file, the script/code might have to look into the bits/bytes of the file. Thus require, heavy coding.
3. Then, with the collected files, the website pulls up a form page that has a list of selected filepaths...so that makes it dynamic webpage. Beside those filepaths, there will be a check box for the user to select.
4. The user then, selects files to move to specified folder and press the submit button.
5. And finally, the website calls up another script/code that will copy the selected files (throught the selected filepaths) to another folder.
Two questions (the second question is important):
1. I've heard of ASP, PHP and JSP...is there anything else? Python maybe? CGI is primitive isn't it?
2. What would be the best server-side language to fullfill my "dream"?
Thank you for your help. I would greatly appreciate it.
