to my I like enough Perl and python has proven them?

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i tried learning python once, i gave up, lol
i also tried c++, gave up

now i just like learning web scripting/programming languages.
ive never looked at perl before, i dont even know what it does or what it is used for.

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If you go deeper in web development and try to create more complicated features on your website actually you have to mix those languages. for example I have a website which is mainly built on html but I also use some scripts of php and code the styles with css, furthermore sql and javascript also used.

for some reason each language has some advantages and shortcomings, for instance html is plain, fast but at the same time not so dynamic, on the other side php is more dynamic but little more complicated; css is more stylish and easy to maintain but it is not supported by all the browsers.

My suggestion is that you have to learrn each language a bit and mix it on your website for your own goal.

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I totally agree with that. I love to code using XHTML and of course with that you need CSS too, but I do learn JavaScript here and there to spruce up my pages a little (not something dramatic flash text, just little things executed onmouseover and stuff). I do use PHP for server-side scripting needs, and I do use MySQL for databases, which is an essential.

HTML is plain and not dynamic because it is designed to be a markup language. It is designed to tell browsers how to display the page.
PHP is dynamic because it is a server-side language to generate dynamic content.
CSS is the language for styling HTML/XHTML documents but unfortunately I need to write separate CSS for Internet Explorer because its CSS support isn't very good
XML is for organizing data which I use to organize data
XSLT is to transform the XML files into nicely formed XHTML documents so that people can read them easily.

Remember, even expert developers (Yahoo!, Google, Facebook, etc) do not memorize all functions in PHP, they refer to reference material at times when necessary.

 

 

 

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PHP, XHTML (none of this HTML nonsense ) and CSS are allI ever really use. That might be because I've never even vaguely attempted to learn anything else, but so far I've found little need to go elsewhere to find the functionality that I require. PHP is, in my mind, sheer awesomeness. I find it a slight pain to try to make my .php files look tidy when having to <i>echo</i> chunks of XHTML code in them, and I'm always trying to find ways around that, but if you combine it with MySQL the sheer level of versatility can't be beaten.

Still, I'm by no means an expert web developer. More of a tinkerer, with a love for clean code.

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yeah i love clean code too, when i look at the code of sites, i hate just seeing it all on one line or just a few things on one line and like chunks and that.

thats wot i like about xhtml, to actually make it valid, it has to be clean.

i also think people who make sites without css should really start. i had one once, i decided to learn css after that because i had to change something on every page once but if i had a style sheet then i wouldnt of had too. i also had to put the stupid font tags for everything, lol.

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I can relate to you there...

Yeah, sometimes whenever I'm using a script that I downloaded from a site somewhere, and I see it organised like this:

if (whatever==whatever) {
do such; and such;
}

I can't stand it!

I also can't stand pieces of code that switch between using single quotation marks (') and double ones (").

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