Transactions over the internet?

Question

Say I have my own company and I want to write a program that will calculate the my employees pay for the month and then transfer that amount of money from the company account to the employee's account. What language would be most useful to me for writing that program?

Answer 1

PHP would work I suppose... but your application would have to run on a server, and would only be accessible through a web browser... Personally I would opt for Delphi or C++. At least with these you can build an actual windowed GUI application, which will allow you far more power and control over the interface than anything browser-based. The other advantage of this is that it could happily be run on a standalone machine, unlike the server-based PHP method.

As for payment I'm not entirely sure. Paypal might work for you, but might not be ideal at the same time. I've never heard of a business using Paypal for its employee wages - I have my concerns that there might be a good reason for this, but I don't know enough on the subject to say for sure.

Rawlyn.

Answer 2

PHP is fine, but open-source stuff is not as well integrated with your office environment, assuming it's Windows-based, and you don't have a lot of experience in systems design.

But if you're using a hosting service, then I would bank on PHP because the Microsoft and J2EE equivalents (.NET / Classic ASP, JSP) are very dependent on how the host's server is configured. At that, most hosting services don't support .NET because its configuration is too complex for N number of their customer's web sites.

If your host supports .NET (either version 1.* or 2.*), OR you host it yourself, then I recommend it for these reasons:
Learn-ability (Microsoft products are the most popular among beginner and intermediate web developers)
Scalability (.NET has easy-to-use extensions which work with Office products, such as Word, Excel, etc., and you can use Windows-login based authentication)
Pre-defined (.NET has a lot of classes, like the Membership API, which through Visual Studio you can make a login and bounce non-authorized users easily)

I've hit this all on the head but since you seem to be serious then I recommend an IT consultancy, like www.spantech.com, to not just develop the piece for you, but discuss some of the issues I've grazed upon here in detail.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

PHP is good enough. ok, also look for paypal.com for money transfer