It all rather depends whether you're setting up a server yourself or writing pages hosted on someone else's server.
Most webhosts these days will include PHP and probably MySQL pre-installed. Many include graphical tools to manipulate MySQL; to populate databases and the like. This is probably a good starting point.
If you're installing everything from scratch, things will be slightly tougher - but if it's Linux, the Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) setup is extremely common and there should be lots of how-to documents out there on setting it up.
I personally use MySQL and PHP all the time; but I really don't know how to judge whether it's easy to pick up or not, I'm afraid, as I've used computers for far too long and so what I think might be easy might in fact be dreadfully obscure. Am happy to help out / give pointers if you get stuck, tho'...
However I wouldn't touch ASP/VBScript with a barge pole. But that's just personal preference and anti-Gates-ness. :-)
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Most webhosts these days will include PHP and probably MySQL pre-installed. Many include graphical tools to manipulate MySQL; to populate databases and the like. This is probably a good starting point.
If you're installing everything from scratch, things will be slightly tougher - but if it's Linux, the Linux Apache MySQL PHP (LAMP) setup is extremely common and there should be lots of how-to documents out there on setting it up.
I personally use MySQL and PHP all the time; but I really don't know how to judge whether it's easy to pick up or not, I'm afraid, as I've used computers for far too long and so what I think might be easy might in fact be dreadfully obscure. Am happy to help out / give pointers if you get stuck, tho'...
However I wouldn't touch ASP/VBScript with a barge pole. But that's just personal preference and anti-Gates-ness. :-)