将动态变量插入HTML模板... PHP？ ASP？ ColdFusion的？ MySQL的？

Question

I have looked on this site, googled, and even searched adobe developer central, without luck. As such, I think I might not know the correct terminology to search for, as my question is pretty straight-forward. Thus, if the title was misleading I apologize.

I'd like to learn how to create an HTML template which will then insert variables as needed, specifically, the names of cities and states (for a franchise), where it is appropriate.

[Self-edited after realizing my initial post was way too broad]

How to do this, or perhaps more importantly the terminology I should use in queries so I find relevant information, would be awesome...

On a related note, are all the dynamic scripting languages compatible with all the database technologies (the only book I read on it dealt with PHP and MySQL)?

Thanks everybody.

Answer 1

The "new hotness" in the interwebs is client-side templating (eg in the browser via JavaScript), & either have your data in the HTML or JavaScript & hiddent/unhidden as needed, OR use AJAX/JSON/XML to get new data from the server dynamically.

Linkedin switched to client-side templating: http://engineering.linkedin.com/frontend/client-side-templating-throwdown-mustache-handlebars-dustjs-and-more