Quoting Post Archived Topic: It will not be bumped to the top of the forum. Topic What to learn after javascript and html? Membername   Not a member? Sign Up Free (takes 20 seconds) Password   Forgotten your password? Post Font: Verdana Arial Black Georgia Comic Sans Impact   Size: Tiny Normal Big Huge   Color: Default Dark Red Red Orange Brown Green Olive Cyan Blue Dark Blue Indigo Black [ Check Spelling ] [ Post Preview ] [ LiveTags ] Quote: from [m]Ethryx[/m] at 12:06 pm on Oct. 10, 2007[quote]server-side scripting[/quote] FAQ Keyword Search: Post Options Favorites Manager Notify me of new replies to this topic by email Notify me of new replies to this topic by private message Original Post Chesiffon Posted at 11:57 am on Oct. 10, 2007 I'm sitting here with a PHP and MySQL for dummies book and my plan was to learn php in order to create simple input output applications. But now I'm questioning my choice, since I think I could easily do what I want already by modding other people's open source stuff. So what should I be learning after HTML and Javascript? Is PHP and MySQL the way to go or what?

Replies Whuppee Posted at 8:38 pm on Oct. 20, 2007 Out of curiousity. I'm hardly against C, but why teh aversion to C++? And (I've heard much the same) is there any specific reason you suggest Lisp? vector3df Posted at 4:35 pm on Oct. 20, 2007 Learn the complete LAMP stack like the back of your hand, and C/Lisp if you've got time. Linux [RedHat and Debian style]/ FreeBSD / NetBSD Apache MySQL / PostgreSQL / Oracle (If you can be bothered) Perl / PHP / Python C (NOT C++) Lisp (Supposed to be brilliant for learning about programming, not really necessary) Whuppee Posted at 9:04 am on Oct. 18, 2007 PHP definately, as your interests seem to lie in web programming.  And SQL is worth knowing regardless. Macropiper Posted at 4:15 pm on Oct. 13, 2007 PHP and MySQL require the least investment and are the most commonly used, so you may as well learn them. Learning about Linux servers will help too, as most servers running PHP and MySQL run on Linux. As for modding open source products that use PHP, you will need a fair bit of PHP knowledge to do much to them. Ethryx Posted at 7:57 am on Oct. 11, 2007 Learn PHP and MySQL, they will come really handy. Chesiffon Posted at 5:22 pm on Oct. 10, 2007 Quote: from Ethryx at 12:06 pm on Oct. 10, 2007 server-side scripting Specify please. I think I'd probably want to do PHP before moving on to perl and ajax though, right? Ethryx Posted at 12:06 pm on Oct. 10, 2007 server-side scripting imakethetest66 Posted at 12:02 pm on Oct. 10, 2007 Php and MySQL is getting more popular, so I would say yes. Lulu Nobody Posted at 11:58 am on Oct. 10, 2007 Eh, what's a little extra knowledge under you belt? All 9 previous replies displayed.