[Faner]

Take PHP. After 20mins of reading about JAVA you'll already be pissed off. After 1 hours you'll give up and go to PHP. So don't waste that 1 hour. Compared to PHP java is much more complicated. And for web developing PHP is number 1.

[compfixing]

I hope this will point you to the right direction.

My advice is you should forget about Java. I've built a website before and trust me, never needed Java there.

If you wanna get a job as a web developer, you should focus only on these.

Web Building
HTML, CSS (a must)
Client Scripting - JavaScript and the DOM
Server Scripting - ASP, PHP
XML and SQL


I don't understand why you've a hard time deciding between PHP and Java, unless you don't wanna be a web developer?

[Deque]

I hope this will point you to the right direction.

My advice is you should forget about Java. I've built a website before and trust me, never needed Java there.

If you wanna get a job as a web developer, you should focus only on these.

Web Building
HTML, CSS (a must)
Client Scripting - JavaScript and the DOM
Server Scripting - ASP, PHP
XML and SQL


I don't understand why you've a hard time deciding between PHP and Java, unless you don't wanna be a web developer?

Because web dev is one of the most cases Java is used for jobwise (server side!). I really would like to see any other Java job advertisments than those for Java EE, but it is hard to find any (at least in my country).
Read my previous post. I don't want to write everything again.

(Besides: I've build a website before and trust me, never needed any PHP there - what now?)

[zomgwtfbbq]

Depends of course on what you're trying to achieve. PHP is a very easy to learn language with an incredible amount of libraries and can be used for a variety of things. You can even call your scripts from a shell. Like already stated java is more than just a language for games, java is used in ATMs and lots of other devices that you use daily.

PHP can even bridge java classes or you can use the exec() function in order to execute them.

Java is a pain in the ass if you want to build GUIs (at least I suck at it and many with me). If you just want to use a server sided language you can start on PHP, when you get the hang of how to code classes you can always learn java later.

[1llusion]

I'd say PHP in my eyes, it is pretty simple and really powerful! It is no surprise that major websites use it