I'd say it's different things. PHP is a programming language for creating dynamic applications. While HTML is a markup language.
Yeah I agree with aqualabs as PHP uses also HTML with PHP you will still use HTML but your website will be dynamic...
PHP is server side programming language which allows things like registration and log in while HTML is only good at displaying everything on your page.
PHP is used create dynamic HTML. One is not 'better' than the other since they are two entirely different things.
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An HTML site is like a snapshot - it just sits there. If that's all you need, it's silly to add server-side code (PHP). If you need the site to do something, you need at least Javascript. If the "do something" depends on the server in any way - getting data from a database, storing data to a database, sending an email - you need PHP or some other server-side language. (And if you're interacting with a database you almost always need SQL code too.) But the code running in the user's browser will be HTML and, probably, Javascript. (Which you can write as-is, or you can use PHP to generate it, or both.)
Well, I do believe you need some initial HTML. Also, I have found some PHP website to be quite slow. To me it doesn't matter. PHP website are not necessarily better.
"more sugar more sweet",it is true for PHP ,an ordinary HTML site is static ,but if you use PHP it must be dynamic and provide a real test of site. So PHP site is the best .
I'm often shocked when PHP developers don't know enough HTML to be making output, when to be frank that's the ENTIRE POINT OF PHP, to output HTML. It's not a 'either or' situation -- this is like the other programming language question "which is best" -- for it to be a website it MUST be in HTML, what programming language you use to output that HTML is really a non-issue. Though if the question is should you write flat HTML or use PHP to glue the different parts with like parts together, go with the glue -- that way all the things that are the same on every page can be shared (and edited) from one place.
You indeed need to know html in both cases. If your site has no dynamic data then html is good enough. So it depends on what site you are creating...
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to create dynamic content i.e. use a database or some other variable to create content then you will use some php. Most of the time you will use the two together.
PHP, you can make changes faster. Like, changing the nav bar in one file instead of changing every html page.