Two different types of coding. If you are familiar with ASP, JSP....PHP is very similar and VERY VERY advanced. You can script almost anything with it in no time at all. The object-orientation of PHP is great as well. It connects seamlessly with MySQL for instance and you can find free PHPBB and free PHPMyAdmin which is great.

Python on the other hand...far stronger. If you research it you'll find it competes perfectly with Java and isn't nearly as hard/cumbersome to write. It follows most of the practices of C but includes OO architecture. Very cool. Check out sites like Plone.org which is a CMS that utilizes Python as the back end.

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