I would like to learn how to do cool stuff.

Well I've seen that you're learning SmallTalk, whatever that is.

If you'd like to learn stuff relevant to this board and how we set it up, the list is HTML, PHP and SQL, but any one of them would be fun and look good on your résumé.

stuff relevant to this board and how we set it up, the list is HTML, PHP and SQL, but any one of them would be fun and look good on your résumé.

Thankyou John H.

Do you recommend one language as being more or less helpful?

Depends on what your goals are, really. PHP/MySQL is a good combo for low cost web solutions, for instance.

HTML is the basic one, really.

I think every Well-Brought-Up Young Lady today needs to know HTML.

PHP is like Magic HTML. And SQL is the storage and retrieval system you need for the ingredients when they get above a certain size.

But we should probably have this chat in Buffistechnology if we're going to go on in details.

PHP/MySQL is a good combo for low cost web solutions, for instance.

But ita I am embarrasingly rich! :-P

PHP is like Magic HTML

Yay.

Ta John.

Do people come across the acronym L.A.M.P. much?

It means "Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP". So we are, I'd guess, a LAMP site? Though I don't know about the L.

Anyway, all four technologies are open-source and free, so it's a deliberate contrast with dot-net, which isn't free and doesn't stand for anything.

I think every Well-Brought-Up Young Lady today needs to know HTML.

Mine does!

Now if I can just educate her in the evils of (A) background patterns and (B) background MUSIC, I may just avoid the necessity of removing her from the meme pool.

Actually, not so much. HTML is markup language -- it's all about presentation, and not about logic.

PHP is an actual programming language that's easily embedded in HTML, and provides a fair amount of server side logic.

it's all about presentation, and not about logic

Oh, but it was supposed to be! And, XHTML, and, and, my metaphor of CSS being like Han Solo riding to the rescue of Princess HTML...

No, seriously, all I meant was really that if you want to learn PHP, you should have a grounding in HTML first -- that's the order to learn them in.