WHich is better: php or just html with css? I'm redoing an old site.

My guess is everyone would agree php is the way to go. It opens up a lot of new options. (bt since I dont' know php, I would need an easy back end... Just wanted to hear a few opinions, before I spend the time and some money updating an older html humor site, that I want to be able to have the freedom to add all kinds of scripts, etc.

Thanks!

 

PHP outputs HTML and CSS... so you're basically on the same way. PHP allows you to manage your content easier, upload videos (or whatever your site is about), etc... But if you don't know PHP you may can just use a pre-made CMS.

 

Thanks for the thoughts... Do you mean a premade CMS like JOOMA, or you mean something more like a php management system that works for any site once it's kind of configured?

 

Yes, I mean Joomla, Drupal, etc... If you don't know php it'd be the best for you I guess.

 

Well php is a server side programming language and HTML/CSS is a layout language.

PHP is used to connect to database and do all kinds of server side processing, get the data and feed it into HTML/CSS based template to output a webpage which is served to the browser.

If you want to be successful web application developer, you need to know all the three PHP/MySQL/CSS/HTML.

If you want to be a successful web designer, then you only need CSS/HTML

regards
Aditya

 

They are client side languages, as is javascript....