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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.

Hmmm, cool. We've done a little Java phone programming already, quite nifty stuff, not as fun as the GBA programming we did though.

But if you guys say that game GUI's are similar then it looks like some sensible people are actually thinking ahead on my course, I am only at the end of my 1st year.

Sounds like a really intresting course, but yeah I did say that webdesign and game design look very similar, but without tables and with a lot more interactivity.
GBA programming, bah, I remeber you telling me about that :p
anyway, i'd go for PHP as said before, it's open source also you'll get more support for it, I think PHP is genrally more well known than ColdFusion.
Did you make any games for the GBA or did you keep to making the intro sequences?

How do I put a MYSQL database (to be used with PHP) onto a remote computer e.g freeola???

The host needs to support MySQL. Freeola currently do not support MySQL.

We didn't ,ake anything for it, we just used it to look at how to access registers and learn a little bit of assembly language. The most complex thing we got it to do was draw 400 circles and try to get the program to run as quickly as possible so we could see the differences between using functions and macros etc. as I said, I'm only in first year still learning the ropes.