>Is PHP a good choice or should I be going with something else Anything else, really. PHP wasn't a language designed for development, it was a language designe

>Is PHP a good choice or should I be going with something else Anything else, really. PHP wasn't a language designed for development, it was a language designed to allow HTML coders to quickly do small web-app like things that was previously only something CGI could do. I'd look into Ruby, Java, Scala, C#, clojure, python instead. MySQL is a fine DB. I'd start coding right away, its the only way to get better.