QUOTE I think everyone's missing the point that the end result of PHP is that it actually outputs HTML to the web browser, the same with nearly all scripting languages designed for web delivery. So, in other words, you can't have PHP without HTML (well you could, but the user wouldn't see anything). I must add that one can use PHP to create programs just as he would use any other programing language. There is an extension for PHP that allows you to do this. But PHP was created primarly for web development and (as you said) creation of HTML, on server side, and giving output to client (web agent/browser) as formatted HTML.

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Where did you guys learn php?

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http://php.net/

Just search any function that you are having problems with, and it'll help you with it.

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Yes and in that case, there's even less point comparing PHP & HTML cos then they're doing entirely different things.

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Mmm.. when I saw the topic title, I thought, "PHP vs HTML? Wouldn't it be more helpful to talk about combining the two?"
They're both lovely by themselves, but since, as everyone else has said, they're so different.. putting them together makes for an unstoppable website ^^

I personally use HTML more, since I tend to like things simple.. but the lines of PHP I sprinkle through my pages couldn't be replaced by all the HTML in the world ^^

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In my opinion , no one is missing the point . PHP's purpose isn't to output data on a page , it's purpose is to execute basically anything server side eg. sql query's , you don't see these querys get executed but you can output the results but all im saying is that its true purpose is not to display on a page , that's html's job

 

 

 

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So you're disagreeing with me while at the same time reiterating my point.......riiiiiiiight.

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hm.... PHP vs HTML? thats cant work. PHP is a preprocessor of HTML, without HTML PHP can't really work. PHP works with HTML.

PHP vs ASP, PHP vs JPS yes
PHP vs HTML... no

You can't make a login system with just HTML
You can't connect to a MySQL database with just HTML
You can't do hardly anything interactive or server side with just HTML

there is no competition here as they dont do the same thing.

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Sorry I made a little mistake. You can't compare php and html.

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You really can't compare PHP with HTML. FIrst HTML is a markup language, meaning it tells browser on how to display data while PHP is not. PHP is a programming language much like C and VB the only diference is it is not a compiled langugae but just interpreted. The other thing is, PHP is pretty much useless without HTML, the data processed by PHP comes from HTML forms. PHP is used to make HTML more dynamic than the ussual use of Javascript. Its a server side process whili HTML is client side.

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