Ryan, Joachim (, others): You mentioned that you dislike PHP. I would be curious to learn your reasons for this. I'm not trying to instigate religious wars or the like, it's just that my programming skills are mostly nonexistant <cough>GW BASIC & shell scripts</cough> and I'm thinking of properly learning PHP, kind of as an evolutionary step, up from XHTML.
Should a coding n00b like myself avoid PHP like the plague, or do your reasons only come into play once a certain level of programming proficiency is attained? Thanks and regards, --ropers PS: I probably could see that the mere fact that PHP does server-side processing could be seen as a huge downside as opposed to ECMAscript / AJAX, where processing occurs on the client side. OTOH, you're not supposed to trust the client -- and I know that pretty friggin large PHP-script deployments do exist, eg. MediaWiki/Wikipedia. (Then again, WP uses a slew of Squid proxies...)
