Learning PHP. - some questions

[Remember]

Ok, well I've been googling up some pretty decent PHP tuts, so I'm good with tuts, but I have some other questions.


Is it better than JavaScript?
Is it worth the time?
Do most PHP scripts have a bunch of HTML in them, or is it just in the examples in tut's I've seen?
Will it help increase knowledge of programming for more advanced languages more than basic Java does?
EDIT: also, I have installed PHP, and when I open .php files all I see is the source code, even from examples in tut's that I know work.
D:?

Many thanks xD

[ElJohno]

Ok, well I've been googling up some pretty decent PHP tuts, so I'm good with tuts, but I have some other questions.


Is it better than JavaScript?
Is it worth the time?
Do most PHP scripts have a bunch of HTML in them, or is it just in the examples in tut's I've seen?
Will it help increase knowledge of programming for more advanced languages more than basic Java does?
EDIT: also, I have installed PHP, and when I open .php files all I see is the source code, even from examples in tut's that I know work.
D:?

Many thanks xD

- Yes.

- Sure, depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to start out making more simple stuff, I'd stick to HTML and JavaScript for a while.

- It's practically always going to work with some form of HTML, but it doesn't necessarily have to. It's just a simple, conventional way of sending information to the server, getting the script to read it and then displaying it.

- In my opinion, the more the better. It doesn't have to be similar, but it could always help.

- I'm not really too sure actually.. I'm new to PHP myself too.
My friend was telling me the other day about having to install a local server on your computer using Apache (I think) to run PHP.
Once again, I'm not sure. Maybe one of the other people can help you out with that.
You could always just host it to a webhost that supports PHP, and test it out from there.


Hope I've helped you any. D:

[Remember]

- Yes.

- Sure, depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to start out making more simple stuff, I'd stick to HTML and JavaScript for a while.

- It's practically always going to work with some form of HTML, but it doesn't necessarily have to. It's just a simple, conventional way of sending information to the server, getting the script to read it and then displaying it.

- In my opinion, the more the better. It doesn't have to be similar, but it could always help.

- I'm not really too sure actually.. I'm new to PHP myself too.
My friend was telling me the other day about having to install a local server on your computer using Apache (I think) to run PHP.
Once again, I'm not sure. Maybe one of the other people can help you out with that.
You could always just host it to a webhost that supports PHP, and test it out from there.


Hope I've helped you any. D:
Thanks so much :D

And yeah, it tells me I have to have a web host with Apache set up, but I can just upload to a .t35 host, they support pretty much everything, and it's free.


I've today been working on a website for something my mom is doing, and I earned like 5 bucks xD, nearly all of it is JS/HTML, :P.