School Project for final year

Question

I'm in final year of my degree and it is required that i do a final year project.
I have decided to do something on adaptive websites that implements customisation, personalisation and basically adaptation via heat maps and weblogs. So for a prototype i would be designing a website for tertairy level students and see if these technologies improve the usbability of the site. i would model it after my school's website.
So here's the question, What would be a better language to use? I have some knowledge in struts 2 framework and some knowledge in php. Could say a newbie at both. So I was wondering what would be the easier and faster way to go. php or the struts2 framework?

thanks.

Answer 1

You're looking into a lot of work either way. I, myself, also having somewhat basic PHP knowledge and little JavaScript was able to figure out how to use the Google Maps API and Heat Map API in about a week. Also, documentation for the above mentioned APIs are great.

Frameworks, however, provide for more rapid development, but sometimes you may find yourself blocked into a corner from not having as much flexibility as you would have coding from scratch.

Personally, I would use PHP, but be ready to spend a lot of time reading documentation and doing tutorials. Good luck!

Answer 2

Every technology has its own drawbacks and advantages. Its better you choose the one you are comfortable at. This is will make your work easier. I have not done PhP work but I am good at struts2. Struts2 is not for beginners.