What Is Harder, JavaScript Or PHP?

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  1. #1
    Hey all,

    Maybe seems like an odd question to ask but the reason I ask is because I am learning JavaScript which I find fairly hard to pick up and I am going to start learning PHP soon and so I wondered if I am going to find it easier or harder than JavaScript?
     
    gobbly2100, Oct 9, 2007 IP
  2. GMROCKS

    GMROCKS Active Member

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    PHP is a language that outputs html (and other text) to a browser.

    javascript is clientside, and can be used in a lot of ways. like making snow in you browser.

    it depends.

    I would say php is easier for a lot of things.
     
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    I would say PHP is WAY easier than JS but that's probably just because I haven't learned much JS.
     
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    php is much easier it has by far the best documentation and error checking is so much easier.
     
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  5. blueparukia

    blueparukia Well-Known Member

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    PHP is cinch compared to JavaScript, thats pretty much it...

    BP
     
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    zac439 Notable Member

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    Javascript is on an entirely different level than PHP.

    Try to make a RuneScape with PHP!
     
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    ajaychadha Banned

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    I'd say both are easy but it depends on the interest you show in them. If you are good at Javscript and PHP both then you can do a lot like AJAX programming that includes both JavaScript and Server side language like PHP to display and manipulate data instantly.

    Regards,

    Ajay Chadha :)
     
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  8. Ronson

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    I'd say both are hard if you have never done programming and if you are not aware of how server and client side script languages work.
     
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    JavaScript is by far the hardest because of cross-platform problems. PHP is easier because it lets you get away with a whole lot more. They are both easy languages, like someone mentioned, but the problems of JavaScript not having a standard will eat at you until you die.
     
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    #10

    Are you confusing Java with Javascript? They're totally different languages and are nothing alike.

    But in reply to the thread title I would think that Javascript is harder to learn. I've read many other people agree with this.
     
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    PHP is much easier in my opinion, but then again I'm only 15 so it might just be because I'm young that I find JS Harder ;s
     
    Invent, Oct 15, 2007 IP
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    Learn PHP, especially writing and reading from databases. That will you how to create information rich websites.

    Then learn Javascript so that your get a nice interactive website for users accessing your data.

    Both complement each other.
     
    jmansel, Oct 15, 2007 IP