VBGamer

Hehe PHP is great and I love promoting it :) There are huge advantages, depending on what you're doing with your site. Basically what PHP does is it generates a plain html page from whatever code you give it (including plain html... you have open and close php tags)... I originally used it to have a generic header and footer across all my pages (the header had all the opening tags like html and body with all the settings right, as well as setting up tables and stuff, and then the footer had all the closing stuff).. I would then just 'include()' them from each of my pages and in between, I would just have to put the actual content of the page, and not have to worry about having all my navigation and stuff actually in that file as well. It was great: if I needed to change something slightly across all pages, for example the color of the background, I'd just make the change in the header file and it would be across all the pages automatically... But, there are way more useful things to do with PHP than just this of course :) Good places with info/tutorials/articles/samples are php.net (the official page... check php.net/manual for the full online manual), phpbuilder.com, phpwizard.net, and weberdev.com. There's probably loads of other places too, but these ones I find very useful... If you need help getting PHP to compile into apache properly, feel free to ask me as I've had to do it MANY times, and gotten stuck almost every time with library dependency problems and stuff hehe... David