[Jso]

Hi. I was wondering how to make websites in PHP, what editors, and how its like. Also, can someone tell me what the benifits of PHP are? Why is it better then HTML? Thanks alot.

[Hackerman]

I honestly have no clue what the benefits are. There are probabaly some more short cuts and what not and I believe its easier to implement certain things in your site than HTML.

[Larry]

well, PHP really has nothing to do with HTML as a programing langague.

PHP is a server side language
HTML is client side

PHP basically has unlimited funtionality
HTML is pretty limited

but again, your comparing apples to oranges.
A better comparision is PHP to ASP
and
HTML to Javascript (well, sort of anyway)

[Jso]

So people can program in php and not no any html?

[petogaz]

Originally posted by Jso
So people can program in php and not no any html?

i dont know if that's possible. the easiest way is to incorporate PHP codes into HTLM. that would work fine.

[Jso]

But then how to you get the .php instead of the .html?

[Hackerman]

when you are finished writing the code in note pad save it as

*filename*.php ..... lol

[Jso]

...in doing this, there is nothing special about .php. So whats the point in making it?

[ADZ]

you cannot make a site in PHP, you use HTML, but you incorperate things into your site. For example: A login Script so that you can go to 'special' pages, you will need to write a PHP code to do this (cannot be done in HTML). You end u saving the html file as a .php file because it has PHP in it.

Does that make sense or am I rambling?

[petogaz]

one more inforamtion, keep in mind that PHP is a dynamic language and HTML is a static one.
cheers.