Should I learn php

[GreezyJeezy]

I know html and css, so what will php allow me to do with my website that html and css won't.

 

 

[DXMember]

php does logic

it's like C# to your WPF

like bread for your butter

[prolemur]

It allows your website to be dynamic, think facebook and adding profiles and pictures.

[colonel_mortis]

If you want to do anything more complicated than just some pages that you are manually copying and editing the HTML for, you need a server side programming language, so I would recommend learning at least one so that you can use your HTML skills for something more useful. There are lots of different programming languages that you could use. PHP is probably the most widely available language, so whatever web host you use, it will support it, but it has a lot of flaws and inconsistencies, and probably wouldn't be the language of choice for many people who have used several different languages.

I'd still say you probably should learn PHP, but once you move onto other languages, you probably won't use PHP when you have a choice.

[Gachr]

PHP is considered a quite dreadful language, but it's very popular.

[DevBlox]

I guess you're starting to warm to the idea that html and css don't empower you completely. Good. A functional webpage is no good without a backend, that's what PHP is for, backends - they operate with your database, get and put things from and to the webpage as the page loads or the user interacts with it, it's the brain - the business logic, that keeps the machine rolling. But I would advise strictly against PHP if you will be doing more than casual web pages (as much as I wish PHP would die, it's a bit easier to learn starting from no experience, so for personal use, whatever). I (and lots of other people too) consider PHP to be quite outdated, it's flawed as a language even, it should stay the hell away from any important things, but yet... Right now I'd point you to learn a proper language that does not put too much pressure on you, a good choice would be to learn Python or Javascript (then after JS maybe TypeScript, it's way cooler than JS, you'd get why after some time) and write great backends instead of those PHP ones.

[GreezyJeezy]

3 minutes ago, DevBlox said:

I guess you're starting to warm to the idea that html and css don't empower you completely. Good. A functional webpage is no good without a backend, that's what PHP is for, backends - they operate with your database, get and put things from and to the webpage as the page loads or the user interacts with it, it's the brain - the business logic, that keeps the machine rolling. But I would advise strictly against PHP if you will be doing more than casual web pages (as much as I wish PHP would die, it's a bit easier to learn starting from no experience, so for personal use, whatever). I (and lots of other people too) consider PHP to be quite outdated, it's flawed as a language even, it should stay the hell away from any important things, but yet... Right now I'd point you to learn a proper language that does not put too much pressure on you, a good choice would be to learn Python or Javascript (then after JS maybe TypeScript, it's way cooler than JS, you'd get why after some time) and write great backends instead of those PHP ones.

i learned python probably 6 months ago but i forgot most of it