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by markbranly 4085 days ago
PHP is _not_ Web only. You can write CLI tools and server scripts with it. Look at Composer. That is pure PHP.

PHP is a highly marketable skill. WordPress, with their mission to power 50% of the Web, is PHP. Not to mention … the Book of Faces.

There are modern frameworks for PHP like Laravel that play the same role as Django.

But, if you're learning a new language, why not JavaScript? Everything is JS now—server side scripts, full stack Web dev, "Internet of Things." It is well on its way to Total World Domination.
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butwhy 4085 days ago
Good points. And I'm at the point where I can create a site in html/css and bootstrap, but want to start populating the data with dynamic content and interaction with a database etc. Do you think javascript would be a good thing for me to focus on now to achieve those things?

I guess I had plans to look into javascript at some point, but it was primarily going to be for traditional ui manipulation. Do you think it can totally replace what I was going to originally do with php/django?

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