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"PHP vs ColdFusion 5.0"

Right guys, I'm doing web design at uni, and we're given the extremely easy task of building dynamic websites with Dreamweaver ultradev4. This will let us use several scripting languages for doing our stuff, ColdFusion being the one of choice for me, but what I want to know is the advantages of learning PHP.

I don't actually know any HTML or cold fusion, I just let Dreamweaver do all the coding, much easier and faster.

Your doing a web design course at uni and they're not teaching you HTML???

PHP and ColdFusion are both server-side scripting languages. I do work in both, which is a bit confusing at times! There are advantages to both, but the big plus of PHP over CF is that PHP is open source and CF is pretty expensive, not only for the server software but also for hosting. There are thousands of hosters who can serve PHP (including Freeola of course) but nowhere near as many for CF. CF is better suited to very high traffic commerical sites.

Therefore in your position, I reckon you'd be better off working in PHP.

Chris.

You were writing HTML a while back! I havn't tried Cold Fusion either, but it's worth £2000 so i thought i'd download the MX version (5.0 didn't like my *cough*) bah

php is class! i've only just started to really do anything with it, it's cut about 1/2 off my page scripting and makes updating a sinch! yet, I have no examples to show you, even better! if you view someon's source file you can' see they've used php! makes them look like they've been working late hours to get it finished :D

So what is cold fusion????

Right guys, I'm doing web design at uni, and we're given the extremely easy task of building dynamic websites with Dreamweaver ultradev4. This will let us use several scripting languages for doing our stuff, ColdFusion being the one of choice for me, but what I want to know is the advantages of learning PHP.

I don't actually know any HTML or cold fusion, I just let Dreamweaver do all the coding, much easier and faster.