MySQL和PHP的最佳服务器端语言

Question

So I have access to a dedicated server and want to finally create my game - it's a browser based game, fairly simple. I know PHP and MySQL fairly well and would want to integrate with them on the front end.

The question is what is a good server-side language to use either as a constant process or with cron to interface with the MySQL database to do calculations?

Ideally my requirements are:

• As short a learning curve as possible.
• Easiest access to MySQL as possible.
• As hard to shoot yourself in the foot as possible.

I'd like to avoid C/C++ if possible for the above 'shoot yourself in the foot' problems. It'd also be nice to have a secondary language to use personally so I may take it beyond this limited scope.

Thanks in advance for any insights!

Answer 1

You could use commandline php with cron. The great advantage of that is that you can reuse libraries that you write for your game and you already know the language. I don't think it's performance is great though.

Besides that there are a ton of languages you might choose, Python and Java are popular.