PHP = A Web Developer's Dream! Its a highly function server side scripting language that can almost do anything. Awesome for but not limited to: form handling, content management, user registration, login management (cookies/sessions), parsing rss feeds, etc. I could go on and on but if you are serious about it I would most definitely take the time to learn it.
If PHP is peanut butter...then...MySQL would be the jelly. Together they can make one heck of a good sandwich.
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"If PHP is peanut butter...then...MySQL would be the jelly. Together they can make one heck of a good sandwich." --- Netzilla 9/14/08
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"If PHP is peanut butter...then...MySQL would be the jelly. Together they can make one heck of a good sandwich." --- Netzilla 9/14/08
Static sites are made from HTML. When you type the web address you get the code that is in the file at that address. Nothing changes.
PHP is a server-side language. You never see it in the code of the web page. It is in the file on the server but when the server reads the file if it finds PHP it does whatever the code says, which may include inserting some HTML code. It takes the static HTML code and adds the HTML code from PHP and shows you the result.
Example:
<body>
<p>Welcome</p>
<p>Two plus two is <?php $number = 2+2;
echo $number; ?>
</p>
</body>
Turns into:
<body>
<p>Welcome</p>
<p>Two plus two is 4</p>
</body>
Simplicity and Superiority. 
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