My employer is looking at a new way to manage payroll for our contractors. Currently, we use a very complicated excel sheet, but it's becoming too much of a hassle to maintain due to company growth, pay changes, new clients, etc...

Anyway, I need to develop a new system and I was wondering what you all think the best way to develop this. I have experience in PHP/MySQL, Python, and VB.  I need to get something deployed fairly quickly, but I can build on it as time goes on. 

PHP/MySQL: This is ideal, but I have to go through the trouble of explaining to everyone that we need a web server in the office. Then there's the whole security aspect. Is it worth it?

Python: I'd rather not use an interpreted language, especially since I have only done scripting with Python and have no idea how to create UI.

VB: This would be easiest; however the whole database management aspect of VB was confusing to me. 

Or any other languages? I'd be willing to learn...

The program will have a series of contractors (let's say 50) and every week we enter a list of jobs that they have completed, organized by an order ID (29492, O9928, 203-1, etc...), each order has a $ amount that was paid to us, then paid to them, then calculations for profit, fees, overhead, etc... I need to be able to add/remove contractors with their own variables (commission %, name, address, phone, etc...)

Any ideas for what language or framework to do this in?

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Need to develop a new payroll
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My employer is looking at a new way to manage payroll for our contractors. Currently, we use a very complicated excel sheet, but it's becoming too much of a hassle to maintain due to company growth, pay changes, new clients, etc...

Anyway, I need to develop a new system and I was wondering what you all think the best way to develop this. I have experience in PHP/MySQL, Python, and VB.  I need to get something deployed fairly quickly, but I can build on it as time goes on. 

PHP/MySQL: This is ideal, but I have to go through the trouble of explaining to everyone that we need a web server in the office. Then there's the whole security aspect. Is it worth it?

Python: I'd rather not use an interpreted language, especially since I have only done scripting with Python and have no idea how to create UI.

VB: This would be easiest; however the whole database management aspect of VB was confusing to me. 

Or any other languages? I'd be willing to learn...

The program will have a series of contractors (let's say 50) and every week we enter a list of jobs that they have completed, organized by an order ID (29492, O9928, 203-1, etc...), each order has a $ amount that was paid to us, then paid to them, then calculations for profit, fees, overhead, etc... I need to be able to add/remove contractors with their own variables (commission %, name, address, phone, etc...)

Any ideas for what language or framework to do this in?

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What's a simple language for creating
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