PHP vs. Ruby on Rails form web-based form submission system
Some friends and I are part of a large student group and we are trying to create an online web form to help automate and organize monetary reimbursements. We want to be able to have users authenticate (preferably with their google accounts) and submit the data through online form that passes it to a SQL server. Ultimately, we want to be able to export the data as a CSV file to be imported into Quickbooks. 

Most of my group are not experienced programmers so we've been learning on the go. Right now, we already have a SQL server set up in the back end. We've been pulling PHP code from online examples to create our web submission form. I've posted some of the code of what we have so far http://pastebin.com/zBGnt4Hf  As for authentication, we were planning on using a user management platform like Janrain to log in with our google accounts via OpenID.


Right now, another student recommended for us to consider using Ruby on Rails over PHP. From searching online and from talking to friends, it sounds like it'll be easier to hack together something using PHP, but Ruby would allow us to create a more streamlined system (esp if we're using a Ruby on Rails-based web framework for the site). I wanted to post here on Reddit to get some advice or thoughts for you guys, since you all have much more experience with web development then I do. How is our approach? Should we switch to Ruby or is there another way that's a lot easier that we're completely overlooking?


Thanks for your help!
PHP vs. Ruby on Rails form web-based form submission system
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Some friends and I are part of a large student group and we are trying to create an online web form to help automate and organize monetary reimbursements. We want to be able to have users authenticate (preferably with their google accounts) and submit the data through online form that passes it to a SQL server. Ultimately, we want to be able to export the data as a CSV file to be imported into Quickbooks. 

Most of my group are not experienced programmers so we've been learning on the go. Right now, we already have a SQL server set up in the back end. We've been pulling PHP code from online examples to create our web submission form. I've posted some of the code of what we have so far http://pastebin.com/zBGnt4Hf  As for authentication, we were planning on using a user management platform like Janrain to log in with our google accounts via OpenID.


Right now, another student recommended for us to consider using Ruby on Rails over PHP. From searching online and from talking to friends, it sounds like it'll be easier to hack together something using PHP, but Ruby would allow us to create a more streamlined system (esp if we're using a Ruby on Rails-based web framework for the site). I wanted to post here on Reddit to get some advice or thoughts for you guys, since you all have much more experience with web development then I do. How is our approach? Should we switch to Ruby or is there another way that's a lot easier that we're completely overlooking?


Thanks for your help!