[mikesgroovin]

Some people find that learning similar languages at the same time can be quite confusing. So if you are going to take PHP and HTML in High School... just start with that. Get a head start if you want. It can't hurt. Much of PHP is embeded in HTML so it makes sense to take them both at the same time (and they are totally different). If you want to go older and find the roots of where PHP came from, try C and Perl. C is just a great language to learn by itself anyway. There are so many languages that started with C binaries and are in a sense "built" off of C. Knowing Perl, or at least having worked with Perl many years ago helped me learn PHP a lot faster. But, it wasn't necessary knowledge.

In my opinion.... Don't overcomplicate the learning curve by trying to fill your head with too much stuff all at once, especially programming languages. You'll just end up mixing languages and getting sloppy results. Some people can handle multiple language learning ... some can't