[WEB] What language should I use for this?

[NeatSquidYT]

I'm planning to create a site using the MyAnimeList API and also IDMB's. I simply want a language that will easily be able to read XML or JSON from a URL and put it into a table of some sort. I was thinking of Javascript, however I'm doing PHP in school next year and I was wondering if I could use PHP for this.

[mikat]

I'm planning to create a site using the MyAnimeList API and also IDMB's. I simply want a language that will easily be able to read XML or JSON from a URL and put it into a table of some sort. I was thinking of Javascript, however I'm doing PHP in school next year and I was wondering if I could use PHP for this.

the web uses: html (always), css (optional, but required if you don't want your site to look horrible) and js (optional, but very handy)

and yes you will need PHP for that XML/JSON API stuff

so:

html

css

js

php

[Goldensapling]

the web uses: html (always), css (optional, but required if you don't want your site to look horrible) and js (optional, but very handy)

and yes you will need PHP for that XML/JSON API stuff

^^^^

[fizzlesticks]

and yes you will need PHP for that XML/JSON API stuff

 

Depends on what he wants to do. If all you're doing is requesting some page and putting the result in a table that could be done client side with javascript.

[mikat]

Depends on what he wants to do. If all you're doing is requesting some page and putting the result in a table that could be done client side with javascript.

yes, but unless he really can't use server side scripting i'd recommend php

[DevBlox]

You can use NodeJS, PHP, Java, C# (those are the main contenders, there are more ways than that).

[alex_read]

I'd second the reply from DevBlox. There are many languages you can use for this task and you can (but don't need) to use PHP if you wanted.

[Nineshadow]

yes, but unless he really can't use server side scripting i'd recommend php

NodeJS.

 

Just not PHP...

[mikat]

NodeJS.

 

Just not PHP...

oh yeah nodejs, totally forgot