I want to create an ecommerce system from scratch

what language should i use? php, asp? or something else?

which will have better security and reliability?

thanks

Myself - I prefer ASP. A lot of people prefer PHP because of *NIX & it being OS.

You might consider .NET - not too many .NET shopping carts out there - so build it good & sell it :)

Since ASP is out of date (at least it stopped development), I wonder it's security is........ hehe.

I prefer PHP. Or you might consider JSP or .NET, they are more advanced.

Originally posted by Canglan
Since ASP is out of date (at least it stopped development), I wonder it's security is........ hehe.

Well just like any system or program - only as good as the developer

For the most part ASP was just JSP, but not as good. As ASP & ASP.NET are resource hungary.

You could use a few, whichever you feel better with:
PHP
JSP
ColdFusion

I have been using asp more many years (ok five) and I have put together a few cms and a few ecom sites and if you adhere to basic common sense, your scripts can be very secure.

Use whatever language you know. Someone else's reccomendation of PHP is pretty useless if you only know ColdFusion.

I agree with you too!
I know only php, so I use it. but with my experience I can say php is easy and simple, moreover it's fast and since i work on *nix and use mySQL i don't have more choices. :)