Well PHP was designed to be implemented with HTML so its fully compatible with search engines and you get more flexibility with the webpage as it has PHP functions in it.

both are real nice. i use a php based system for easy editing because i dont have much time. however i believe that HTML can be really powerful. You can easily design login and design a variety of scripts to make ur site powerful and neat with HTML. Also HTML sites are more stable in my opinion. PHP sites can be hacked easier due to the nature of php scripts

Html is just a text markup language, and it's used just for that.

Php is server side scripting language, and is used for server side scripting.

To say that you use HTML over PHP? Hm, that's really not a simple thing to compare. If you just have a bunch of simple text which you want to show on the web, than it's best to go with HTML. But PHP is built for User side comunication, so if you want that your visitors (aka Users) can participate in your site dynamicly you will have to use PHP, or any other server side language (ASP).

Of course, even with your knowledge of PHP you will still need to know HTML couse it's the only language used for displaying websites on http protocol.

Let's say this



is just a simple php code that echoes HTML text.

This post has been edited by matak: Jul 17 2007, 04:20 AM

I used Php because it works flawlessly with MySQL (Type of Database). I'm going to assume Html is more popular as that's really what one would start with, but more professional sites are nearly all Php.

Any page on the internet uses html, it is the foundation of any website or server, it does not work without html.

php is a great programming language, the best in my opinion, and you can use it on your web pages to spice up your website with dynamic content, scripts, text and images, mainly, it is to complement your website with functions and features that make your life easier as a webdesigner and/or a programmer, to facilitate your clients and visitors of your website, and to save your visitors/clients data in databases like mysql, mssql and txt databases, but there are much more, the most used databases server with php is the mysql server which is open source as you should know.

php stands for pre html processor, which says it all, the php code is processed, in the server, before the html code, it is a server side language, it is executed on the server, not on your browser like javascript or html for instance.

My advice to you is that you must get a very good ebook of html, another for php, another for tcp/ip architecture protocols, another for web design, another for windows systems (because windows operative systems are all pretty much the same thing concerning the way they work, the way they do things, the way they present you with the graphic interfaces of the object applications and system applications), read hacking ebooks too, they are the best for you to be interested in reading and learning at the same time, i did that, and today i have an enormous ammount of information on informatics that i know.

Good luck!

This post has been edited by Lyon2: Jul 17 2007, 11:58 AM

HTML is much easier for me. But. as many others have stated , they are used for different things. HTML can not do as much as PHP, it uses javascript, and other resources for actions where PHP can perform many actions on it's own. PHP is a lot better for forums and membership sites simply because HTML cannot do those login actions by itself.

Personally, I use both, when ever writing a PHP script, you still have to use HTML. I never use one or the other, well unless I'm not making it look nice, with just words.

Heres a question i can relate too. I programed both in html and php. Im currently programing with php only. Its simple you asking why.beacause php has more potentual than html. If you want to compare functions php has alot more functions than html. Php is also a easy languege to learn compared with some other langueges i worked with for example cgi. With so much that can be done with php theres no doubt why php is the most used languege. So for one will stick with php.

I think php is more powerful then html.
php is a scripting language and html is used to display and texts on net. php is related to powerful programini and html is just basic for web designini.
in html you can do such basic things. and i think in php you can do high and professional level scripting.
and now a days php is becoming more and more popular rather then html...