<p>I have a very basic question. I have created a local (mysql) database in my system. I would like to know what would be the best option for a front end. I had used html before and want to try out something new. I might also add some perl code in between for some computational work. Kindly help me in this regard..</p>

<p>Hi, </p>
<p>So it depends on what you want to do, personally I prefer Python and find it very easy to build html interfaces to databases very quickly (its very easy to get something working quickly):</p>
<p>For example pylons has a very simple way of building templates for webpages and it uses SQLAlchemy (an object-relational mapper) to access the database side. </p>
<p><a href="http://pylonshq.com/">http://pylonshq.com/</a></p>
<p>or</p>
<p><a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/">http://www.djangoproject.com/</a></p>
<p>Both have relatively good AJAX support. I know you may want to use Perl ... but I thought I'd suggest that there are some very easy Python frameworks available for this.</p>