I'm having a bit of an overload of information these past two days.

I'm planning to start my own website that will allow local businesses to list their items on sale, and then users can come in and search for "Abercrombie t-shirt" and the stores that sell them will be listed.

It's a neat little project I'm really excited for and I'm sure it'll take off, but I'm having problems from the get go.

Sure I could use ASP.Net for it, I'm a bit familiar with it and the IDE for ASP.Net pages is bar-none, but I feel this is a great chance for me to learn something new to branch out a bit and not regurgitate .NET like a robot.

I've been looking and asking around but it's all just noise and I can't make an educated decision.

Can you help me choose a framework/platform that will make me learn something that's a nice thing to know in the job market, but also nice for me to grow as a professional?

So far I've looked at:

• Ruby on Rails
• Kohana
• CakePHP
• CodeIgniter
• Symfony

But they are all very esoteric to me, and I have trouble even finding out which IDE to use to that will let me use auto-complete for the proprietary keywords/methods.

Thank you for your time.